Assistant Professor, Dept of Special Education, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, India
Online published on 28 March, 2018.
This article is about the availability of various adapted Recreational Games for Children with Visual Impairment, and also it gives the importance and need of leisure time activities for children with visual impairment also tried to explore the different types of games and sports available for children with visual impairment. Visual impairment, it includes both the total blindness and low vision. The purpose is to transfer all the discs from the peg to another without allowing any disc to be placed over a smaller one it is more useful for pre primary children will help the to develop eye hand coordination, to identify difference in texture nd etc. They also have right to participate in these activities. The parents, well-wishers and others should encourage the visually impaired to participate in many games and in the recreational activities, also it is the responsibility of the media to propagate this message among the public. Through sports activities we can create inclusive communities. Also it will strengthen the sportiveness. The recreational games will develop not only the sportiveness also the physical and emotional development. But the participation in recreation, leisure and sports is very less comparatively with normal students due to unavailability or lack of personnel properly trained in teaching adapted games to children with visual impairment.
Adapted, Visual Impairments, Recreation