The program for gifted needs to expand the content, capitalize on the interests and readiness of the learners, and use real creative methods. These people must be challenged or they will not develop. Since so much of education is based on hearing and not seeing, the visually handicapped person usually stays in the regular school with whatever special aids are needed to make-up for the lack of sight. Special aids for Christian education are available from the American Bible Society, the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and a special organization called Christian Education for the Blind located at P.O. Box 6999, Ft. Worth, TX 76115.
Cassette tapes can be excellent resources for visually handicapped persons.
The church can probably mainstream the blind people, with maybe some special individual assistance. They cannot hear, and they need Christ as Savior. The church may not help with one of these, but certainly needs to help with the other. A deaf child is one in whom the residual hearing is not sufficient to enable him to understand speech and develop language successfully, even with a hearing aid, without specialized instruction. Ministry Special classes are needed for the deaf since so much of regular education is based on hearing.