ABSTRACT
Art encourages pupils to explore their environment through visual, aural and tactile methods. Modify teaching strategies to reflect pupils’ visual, auditory and tactile abilities. Pupils with severe visual impairment often experience only what is within arm’s reach and can be safely touched or directly heard. Young children usually love to make marks on paper and most children with visual impairment are no exception. Using a drawing programme on the computer for initial drafts may be helpful as this can produce a far darker line, which can be modified before printing it out and then developing the idea. Other suitable materials for producing tactile drawings include pipe cleaners, Wikki Stix and strips of other tactile materials such as sandpaper and ribbon. Papier mache modelling lends itself to working in stages in a school environment and provides a material that is non-toxic, easily handled and limited only by the imagination.
