The purpose of this research is to provide a way to enhance the quality of the
education for visually impaired students with additional disabilities by analyzing the
class structures in teaching such students, the applied curricula, the difficulties faced
by teachers who teach such students, and the teachers’ perceptions of their curricula,
classes, and IP. In order to collect data, 81 educators nationwide who are teaching
visually impaired students with additional disabilities at elementary schools for the
visually impaired were asked to complete a questionnaire consisting of 26 questions.
The following were able to be deduced from the research results. First, full-time
classes composed of both visually impaired students and those with multiple impairments
was the most prevalent type of class structure for visually impaired students with
additional disabilities, and common curriculum was most the widely used as the
course of study. Second, there were significant differences applied the used curricula
depending on their corresponding class structures. Third, the educators pointed out
the discordance between the difficulty of the content being taught and the types and
levels of disabilities, the large diversity of the types and levels of disabilities within
the classes, and the lack of professionalism in the class management and teaching
methods for visually impaired students with additional disabilities as the main problems
they encountered when teaching their classes. Last, the educators responded negatively
to the question, “Do you believe that the characteristics of visual impairment are included in your class’s curriculum?”