Anatomy of the Eye
It’s the Law!
Assessments
Expanded Core Curriculum
Braille
100

This refractive error is least likely in a school aged child.

Presbyopia

100

In 1975, this law was passed, providing Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), Least

Restrictive Environments (LRE), and Due process.

Education for All Handicapped Children Act- PL 94-142

100

Measuring near acuity during a functional vision assessment of a VI student is typically done at this distance.

Eight inches

100

This term is used to define concepts and skills that often require specialized instruction with students who are blind or visually impaired in order to compensate for decreased opportunities to learn incidentally by observing others.

ECC

100

In January 2016, BANA adopted “this” as the official braille code.

Unified English Braille (UEB)

200

This refractive error causes blurred vision at any distance.

Hyperopia

200

In 1990 the P.L. 101-476 revision changed the name to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); in addition to adding transition services and defining assistive technology devices and services, these conditions were added to be covered under the act. 

Autism and traumatic brain injury

200

Eye movements should be tested in these directions. 

Vertical, horizontal, oblique, and circular

200

These skills include skills necessary for accessing the core curriculum including concept development; communication modes; organization and study skills; access to print materials; and the use of braille/Nemeth, tactile graphics, object and/or tactile symbols, sign language, and audio materials.

Compensatory skills

200

This braille code is used by many individuals who are blind in math and science.

Nemith

300

This refractive error is the most common among children with visual disabilities.

Myopia

300

In the 1997 IDEA reauthorization (P.L. 105-17), these two items were added.

Orientation and Mobility as a related service, and the support for braille as equal to print for instruction in reading and writing.

300

An assessment conducted to find out which senses are used most to get information from the environment is called this.

The learning media assessment

300

These skills help a child to know where she is in space and to move safely, independently, and efficiently in the environment.

Orientation and Mobility

300

These nine contractions were retired from the braille code.

ation, ally, into, to, by, ble, dd, o'clock

400

These retina cells are most sensitive to light.

Rods

400

Not more than once a year, but no less than every three years, this should be conducted.

Reevaluations

400

The entire area that can be seen when the gaze is directed straight ahead without shifting gaze or moving the head, and is measured in degrees, is this.

Visual Fields

400

These are the three Sensory Channels evaluated by teachers of the visually impaired.

Visual, Auditory, and Tactile

400

This is the method of writing braille without contractions.

Grade 1

500

The “bilateral loss of vision, with normal pupillary response and an eye examination which shows no other abnormalities.”

Cortical Visual Impairment

500

The reauthorization of Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1965, which mandates equity for disadvantaged and high-need students, requires all students to be taught high academic standards, dissemination of info from annual statewide assessments, access to high quality preschool, and expectation for accountability and action in lowest-performing schools, is currently known as this Act.

Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

500

Convergence: the ability to maintain fixation on an object as it is moving toward the eyes, and Divergence: the ability to maintain fixation on an object as it is moving away from the eyes, are known as this.

Dynamic fixation

500

Sensory efficiency includes instruction in the use of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. It also addresses the development of these systems.

Proprioceptive, kinesthetic, and vestibular

500

When deciding which contractions to use to braille a word, “these” should always be considered first.

Strong word signs and contractions (and, for, of, the, with)