After reading this chapter, the reader will:

1. Understand and explain the legal and educational definitions of blindness and low vision.
2. Describe how we see, and the major causes of visual impairment in children.
3. Discuss how a visual impairment affects a child's learning and development.
4. Identify how education for students with visual impairments should be different from that of sighted students, and how it should be the same.
5. Describe some teaching strategies, accommodations, and assistive technology supports that can be used with students with visual impairments.