Identifying Problrms in Teaching English to Visually Impaired Students at Special Schools

Dilrabo  Babakulova

doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/K4ZWQ

Dilrabo Babakulova Westminster International University in Tashkent

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/K4ZWQ

Keywords: Visually impaired students, education, solutions to problems

Abstract

This proposal focuses on identifying problems in teaching English to visually impaired students at special school and provides some solutions how to increase the quality of education. First it discusses educational setting by providing full information about students and staff, then talks about how the study was conducted.

After, existing problems, resources and data about financial aids are given one by one. Moreover, detailed goals and objectives of the proposal are included in this stage. In recommendations part all steps to overcome the problem were counted along with actors and timeline stages. This proposal aims to help visually impaired people to get a better education at schools and as a result to become an inseparable part of society by solving English language teaching issues that exist in educational settings.

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