Visually Impaired, Early Childhood Care And Education

Childhood period is the foundation of a person's whole life, education in early child period has a positive meaning to the children. This means the same to the visually impaired children. It is more effective to compensate the lost sight and to develop the potential ability inside by early child care and education, thus to speed up the visually impaired developing more healthy and more quickly either mentally or physically.Developing early child care and education is an important trend in the world, some developed countries and districts have already started the early child care and education for visually impaired children aged 0-4.But in our country, because of various reasons, early child care and education for the disabled include visually impaired children almost placed in blank, only few visually impaired children in developed areas can receive one year education before primary schooling. But some local blind schools and special education centers haven't set up related courses for the visually impaired education, making the 0-4-year-old children education imperfection.No doubt, education for children with vision problems plays a significant role in their life development; it needs urgently to carry on the early child care and education for the visually impaired. Learning advanced experience from foreign countries, combining our country's reality, investigating paths and methods that can reach the goal of teaching the visually impaired children effectively is the main target of this research, and is also the main contents.The study mainly adopted historical documentary research method and activity research method, collecting the data from the domestic and the international early child care and education for the visually impaired completely, inducing and sorting, explicating the present visually impaired education for early children conditions in our country, analyzing the problems and the disadvantages existed. It elaborated the importance and possibility from the researches, finally combined the typical models and found the concrete effective educating methods from family, school, society respectively.