Abstract
The article reveals for the first time the features of the methodology and a new approach in teaching the visually impaired people with special educational needs, including the totally blind people on the example of teaching foreign languages. This technique is innovative and can be used for didactic purposes in teaching any subject matter to people with visual impairments of all ages, including totally blind people in terms of inclusive education. Results of the experimental study are based on the testing of a purpose-designed computer program “Communicative English for Students with Visual Problems”, which was successfully implemented in the State Educational Institution of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) “Republican Special (Correctional) Boarding School” for children with visual and hearing impairments. The experiment involved middle and high school students, as well as students of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. The program was tested by visually impaired students with special educational needs. In total, 15 students of 8–9 grades with various visual impairments, and 7 university students participated in the experiment. In order to clarify the effectiveness of the computer technology use for all categories with visual impairments, students were divided into three differentiated groups: visually impaired, people with residual vision and totally blind.
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