Eccentric Viewing Essay

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Eccentric viewing is the technique used by people with central vision loss. It is the method by which the person looks slightly away from the subject in order to view it peripherally with another field of vision. With a student with Stargardt’s, the environment must be suitable for this activity. There must be adequate lighting, contrast and even magnification to assist the student. The instructional skills that may be used In order to increase the near and distant vision of a student who has Stargardt’s, using eccentric viewing skills:  First identify the blind areas of the student.  Employ techniques such as tracing, scanning, tracking to introduce the student to learn to work around these blind areas. Activities can include tracing exercises, identifying cards/ pictures  Allow student to read or write using eccentric viewing such as tracking.  Use enlargement and enhanced contrast and appropriate magnification devices.  Place an object, maybe finger puppets directly in front of the student that is about 3 feet, and let him look at it without moving the object. Encourage him to move around his eyes, until he sees the object clearly.  Have the student look at the object away from him. Move the object away from the student until he can still see it.  Allow child to look at the objects in different positions- standing, sitting, moving.  Set up a learning center and allow the student to locate different objects, as the teacher names them, and describe them.  An activity that was taken from http://columbusvision.com/pages/1v.html to use with scanning, after discovering the student’s beat angle of viewing is to slowly roll a brightly colored tennis ball back and forth with someone. Encourage the student to use his eccentric vision to track it as it comes toward him and moves away from him.  Another activity is to allow the student to
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