How to become a teacher of the visually impaired

Official title: Teacher of the visually impaired

Also called: Braille teacher, Teacher of the blind, Teacher of the sight impaired, Teacher of the visually handicapped, Vision itinerant teacher, Ÿ Braille teacher

Teacher of the visually impaired specialises in teaching visually impaired students which includes reading and writing in braille. He/she designs or modifies curricula according to students’ needs and abilities in addition to administering various forms of assessment to evaluate the progress of each student.

Main tasks

• Assessing students’ abilities and limitations with regard to intellectual, physical, social and emotional impairments, exceptional intellectual gifts, or other specific problems
• Designing or modifying curricula and preparing and delivering programmes, lessons and activities adapted to students’ abilities and needs
• Giving instruction on an individual or group basis using special techniques or aids appropriate to students’ needs
• Employing special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory
• Establishing and enforcing rules for behaviour and policies and procedures to maintain order among students
• Teaching academic subjects, and practical and self-help skills to students with hearing, sight and other impairments
• Stimulating and developing students’ confidence interests, abilities, manual skills and coordination
• Conferring with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons for special needs students

Ways in

• University: Education & Teaching degrees, Offered by 3 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a teacher of the visually impaired?

Ways in include: Education & Teaching degrees.

Will AI change the work of a teacher of the visually impaired?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026