Teaching a Foreign Language in Schools for Blind and Visually Impaired Children

Abstract

Blind and visually impaired children can be taught to speak, read, and write foreign languages if the techniques and materials are adapted to capitalize on their strengths, including excellent memory and good hearing. In this article, the author draws on the scant literature, his experience as a blind teacher in a school for the blind in Yugoslavia, and his tour of British schools for the blind to extrapolate general principles for successful teaching and the application of appropriate methods and approaches.