Beyond Sight: A Systematic Review of the Challenges and Coping Mechanisms in Inclusive Education for Visually Impaired Students

Abstract

Significant progress has been made on inclusive education for the visually impaired but achieving its smooth implementation remains a distant goal. This is the finding of the systematic review that examines the enormous difficulties that visually impaired students encounter in inclusive education environments in different locations. This paper argues that learners may experience challenges but more often, the visually impaired are the most vulnerable and often left behind, encountering multifaceted barriers that will hamper their ability to move freely and affect their quality of life. The systematic search method was employed to determine the challenges, responsiveness, and coping mechanisms employed by the visually impaired and this study involved a systematic review of qualitative. Three search engines used were– Elicit, Research Rabbit, and Semantic Scholar- resulting in reviewing 40 articles from a keyword search. Despite the different locale of the studies, the challenges encountered by the visually impaired students were almost the same. It is however worth noting that visually impaired individuals have been coping with the challenges they face in inclusive education.