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Article: Classroom Strategies for Improving and Enhancing Visual Skills in Students with Disabilities
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- Teaching Exceptional Children
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- July 1, 2004
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Educational learning tasks often require adequate eye movements and ocular coordination for students to be successful in the classroom. Vision is intimately involved with 70 % to 80 % of all tasks that occur in our educational programs (Richards, 1984; Watkins, 1989). Any vision problem may hinder a student's learning ability. In addition to other students with visual impairments, vision problems are also associated with children who have learning disabilities, brain injuries, mental impairments, and sensory disabilities (Appel & Ciner, 1997, Hellerstein & Fishman, 1997; Sacks, 1998; and Scheiman, 1997). Richards indicated that approximately 80% of children who have reading problems ...