In the Psychology department, we start at the beginning and build on the basic ideas and theories in order to help students develop a good understanding of human behaviour.
The challenges in meeting the needs of students with a vision impairment include:
- The visual nature of some topics
- The need to understand and interpret graphs and tables
- The need to read large amount of information to support the work in the classroom
- Lack of the incidental learning which is acquired through sight
Head of Department:
Examples of adaptations for vision impaired students
- There is flexibility in the options which can be taught allowing a choice of topic areas that are more accessible to our students and which allow the students to engage more with the subject.
- Students will be involved in planning and conducting different psychological research tasks to help them grasp some of the more difficult methodological concepts involved in carrying out psychological research.
- Structured work on developing research skills using resource banks of large print, Braille and electronic materials.
- Use of tactile diagrams e.g. graphs and tables.
- Textbooks in large print, Braille and electronic versions are available.
- Eduqas: Psychology