Introduction Administering a program for the education of children with visual impairments presents some singular challenges for the ablest of administrators.
Visual impairments pose unique issues.
It is through vision that we gather the vast majority of information about the environment. Even a mild limitation in functional vision will have an impact on gathering and using information about people and the world around us and interactions between them. A child may acquire a visual impairment at birth or at any point throughout his or her life, with each situation having a different impact on development. Visual impairments can and do happen in conjunction with all levels of physical, emotional, and cognitive abilities. These factors combine to make the population of children with visual impairments an extremely heterogeneous group.