Low Vision Awareness Month raises understanding about low vision: a visual impairment that can’t be fully corrected with glasses, contact lenses, medication, or surgery. The month highlights the challenges people with low vision face while promoting services and tools that help maximize remaining vision, foster meaningful and equitable participation, and maintain dignity and quality of life. 

Vision-related conditions are one of the leading categories of childhood disability in the U.S, with nearly 7% of children diagnosed with an eye or vision condition. Of those, nearly half are living with blindness or vision impairment. With that in mind, it’s important to consider our students and our daily teaching practices: how are we considering vision and accessibility in our teaching practices, materials, and resources?  

Included with this message are some quick, but impactful, ways to bring awareness of or empathy for the low vision lived experience to life in your classroom this month. 

Thank you for your continued commitment to equity and accessibility for all learners.