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Inclusion
People with visual impairment do not fall all into one group. Visual impairments include all degrees of vision loss, which affects the ability for a person to complete tasks in their daily life. Either one eye or both can be affected, one eye may be worse than the other.
Common Features
Different types of visual impairment include:
Difficulty in seeing far away or close up
Blurry or shadowy sight
Difficulty seeing colours properly
Diagnosis
As a child is suspected to be diagnosed with visual impairment, assessment may be carried out. There may be both clinical and functional assessment of vision. A clinical assessment examines how clearly one sees, the field of vision and the physical appearance of the eye. Whereas, the functional assessment identifies the use of eyesight in everyday situations
Visual Impairment
Delay in the development of motor skills
Difficulty in dealing with textbooks
Problems in reading anything which is not largely printed
Uncontrolled eye movement
Cognitive deficit
Inappropriate body language
Difficulty to initiate a dialogue
Rubbing, poking, brushing the eye
Difference in language development: in areas such as the acquisition of the sound system or phonology and the syntactic use of words
Difficulty to identify their surroundings
Lack of confidence to the explore an environment
