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Sensory Impairment

Unlike physical impairment, sensory impairment can be hard to detect. Consequently some learners can be left without the correct provision for a time. A sensory impairment may be described as an impairment of any of the five main senses. The sensory impairments that most commonly affect learning are visual or hearing impairment.

Visual impairment

For visual impairment, we can offer both hardware and software. The high visibility keyboard which presents striking yellow letters on a black keyboard is a favourite with teachers of visual impairment. Software such as JAWS (screen reading software) or Granada Writer v3 (talking word processor), come in handy for the visually impaired learner.

What's more, nearly early every piece of software produced by SEMERC has audio support, making it accessible to the majority of learners. All graphics used in the software are of the highest quality with good image-background contrast ensuring that the learner with some residual vision can use the software to the best of their ability.

Hearing impairment

Though we only have a few resources that support learners with hearing impairments, the SEMERC Information Service will be pleased to direct your enquiries to specialist support associations or people working with hearing impaired learners.

We make it a point that all SEMERC software is highly visual and uncluttered on-screen, enabling the hearing impaired user to make the most of their senses. Our brightly coloured and clearly visible images are supported by audio, enabling the hearing impaired learner with some residual hearing to use both their visual and auditory senses.