Visually Impaired Children II: Intervention Strategies

Using Maslow's (1973) Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs as an organizational scheme, this article offers an overview of interventions which are commonly used with visually impaired children. These strategies include: counselling parents to aid acceptance of their child, providing stimulation and enrichment to enhance psychological development, increasing visual efficiency, aiding orientation and mobility, decreasing undesirable behaviours, increasing social skills, fostering classroom acceptance, facilitating academic learning, and counselling the child to aid self-acceptance.