WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE BLIND? TEACHERS GUIDE

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE BLIND? TEACHERS GUIDE
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What is it like to be blind? Teachers guide

To help you answer any questions about sight loss a FAQs document is located in the 'lesson 3' folder. It may be helpful to familiarise yourself with this before the lesson.

What can blind people see?

Being blind doesn't mean that a person lives in total darkness. Most blind people have some sight. Here are some pictures of what some blind people might see.

The effect of diabetic retinopathy on vision

The effect of glaucoma on vision

The effect of macular degeneration on vision

How do blind people get around?

When blind people go shopping, visit friends and family, or travel on buses or trains, they can take things with them that help them get around more easily.

Some blind people choose to use a white cane to help them get around. They use the cane to feel what is in front of them as they walk. It can help them find out where steps are.

You may have seen special paving stones that have bumps on them, for example near pedestrian crossings. These help blind people know when they are in places of danger, like at the edge of a road. Blind people can feel the bumps when they walk on them or when they touch them with their white cane.

There are other things that can help blind people get around town. The bleeping sound at pedestrian crossings signals that it is safe to cross. Increasingly, buses have talking announcements to let people know what the next stop will be.

Someone using a white cane

Some blind people can also get around with the help of a guide dog. Before a blind person is given a guide dog, they spend time with the dog, becoming friends and learning how to get around together.

Someone using a guide dog

If blind people are in unfamiliar places, they may like to have someone with them who can see, so that they can guide them around safely. Often they will take hold of the arm of the person who can see making it is easier to follow them.

Someone being guided

How do blind people manage everyday tasks?

There are lots of clever gadgets that help blind people to do things like everyone else. Talking watches ‘speak’ the time. Braille, audio and large print books allow blind people to read the same books as everyone else.

A braille watch and a big button phone

Big buttons on telephones makes calling friends and families easier.

Activity idea: Use the internet to research and learn about the gadgets and technology that help blind and partially sighted people lead normal lives. RNIB’s online shop is a good place to start - rnib.org.uk/shop.

Activity time

These two activities are intended to develop pupils’ understanding of the challenges caused by sight loss and the solutions to them.

Activity 1 is a group activity followed by a spoken presentation.

Activity 2 is a creative writing and drawing activity.

1. Imagine Louis Braille arrived at your school today.

• In pairs, discuss what difficulties he might face and how he could overcome them.

• Nominate one person to write down challenges and one person to write down solutions.

• Each pair should verbally present one problem and its solution back to the class.

• Capture all responses and summarise all responses back to the class.

2. Getting around locally as a blind person.

• Ask pupils to think of a journey that they regularly make on foot, for example to the local shop or school.

• Pupils should list each individual element of the journey as a sentence in the order they happen i.e. ‘I walk from my front door, through my front garden, to the garden gate.’

• Ask them to think about one element of the journey that would be difficult for a blind person and propose a solution i.e. ‘feel the bumps on the pavement’ or ‘listen for the pedestrian crossing’.

Early finishers...

• Ask pupils to draw a blind person overcoming the challenging scenario they listed.

• If pupils have completed the internet research project, ask them to draw a picture of a house (showing internal rooms) and add in the gadgets or objects that a blind person might use around the home.

• This activity can be adapted to a written exercise for older pupils i.e. ‘In the kitchen there is a liquid level indicator that helps blind people know when they have almost filled a cup with hot water’.

RNIB hopes you found this lesson and education pack useful and that your pupils enjoyed it. Please help us keep on supporting blind and partially sighted people by holding a Dotty Day. All the information and documents you need to run a Dotty Day can be found in the folder named Dotty Day Fundraising Activity at the start of the Louis Braille bicentenary disc 1.

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