# Teaching the visually impaired student

**URL:** <https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/t/teaching-the-visually-impaired-student/879>\
**Category:** Homeschooling\
**Created:** [February 26, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/t/teaching-the-visually-impaired-student/879 "2015-02-26T20:58:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guatemomof4](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/59ef9b/32.png) [@Guatemomof4](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/u/Guatemomof4)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/t/teaching-the-visually-impaired-student/879/1 "2015-02-26T20:58:02Z")

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Hello Everyone. Is there anyone here who home schools their visually impaired student(s)? My youngest son has low visually acuity, and although we aren’t formally teaching him now, I would like to be able to. Does anyone have any experience with this?

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**Author:** ![kendalh](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@kendalh](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/u/kendalh)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/t/teaching-the-visually-impaired-student/879/2 "2015-03-18T07:31:57Z")

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Hi there, I too have a visually impaired son. He isn’t quite ready for home school yet either but we try to include him as much as possible. We do a lot of audio books. We have worked on some braille but just simple words so far. we have a light box we use for numbers and letters as well. Not sure if this will help but maybe some ideas for you.

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**Author:** ![beaniemom](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/user_avatar/community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/beaniemom/32/414_2.png) [@beaniemom](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/u/beaniemom)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/t/teaching-the-visually-impaired-student/879/3 "2015-03-18T13:42:13Z")

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Are you familiar with DCMP (described and caption media program)? It is a website that is free for those with or teaching those with hearing or visual difficulties. They have a lot of videos that have auditory description that might be of use to you. They also just added a lot of regular programing like Bill Nye, Daniel Tiger, and others. If you haven’t already signed up the website is [dcmp.org](http://dcmp.org).