DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Programming skills are strongly emphasized in IT field. In order to compete with the sighted peers, the differently abled students must shine in the programming field. The problems in programming education are even more prominent in the case of programming novices who are visually impaired. Some of educational problems are similar to general problems in programming education and some are specific in the case of visually impaired students and require a suitable approach in order to be resolved. The main purpose of the study is to improve the skills of visually impaired in programming languages so that they can compete with great confide nce in IT sector. The experimental study was conducted and it was proved that if the students were properly trained with all the assistive devices, specially designed for them, their knowledge and skill increases in the programming field.