Auxilary Aids & Services for Students with Impaired Vision may include:
Impaired Vision
- Seating near front of class; good lighting
- Large print signs, and equipment labels
- TV monitor connected to microscope to enlarge images
- Assignments in electronic format
- Software to enlarge screen images
- Software to adjust screen colors
- Use large font for printing syllabi, handouts and tests.
- Extended time on tests.
Blindness:
- Printed materials available electronically
- Describe visual aids
- Handouts and tests in Braille
- Raised-line drawings and tactile models of graphic materials
- Braille lab signs, equipment labels; auditory lab warning signals
- Adaptive equipment (e.g., talking thermometers and calculators; tactile timers)
- Computer with optical character reader, voice output, (JAWS)
- Audio record lectures
- Electronic text books
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