Assessment Strategies in the Education of Children with Visual Impairment in an Inclusive Setting in Nigeria.

Abstract

The focus of this paper is an assessment strategy in the education of children with visually impaired in an inclusive education. Issue highlighted include need concept of assessment approaches of children with visual impairment. Assessment has been found to be a crucial aspect of special education as well as an indispensible tool for making decision regarding appropriate education placement and designing intervention programs for children with visual impairment proper assessment of children visually impaired eliminated haphazard placement and misplacement of these children with visual impairment in the school system because it facilitates effective instruction and provides feedback to teachers and the children with visual impairment, besides, assessment serves the purpose of evaluating programmes for children with visual impairment.