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The purpose of The Oregon Project for Preschool Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired (OR Project) is to provide assessment and curriculum guidance for intervention planning and progress monitoring to educators of young children with visual impairments. It consists of the Manual of information for preschool educational planning and development, the Skills Inventory, Teaching Activities for all the skills, and a Reference Section. It is important to emphasize that the OR Project Skills Inventory is a criterion-referenced, not a norm-referenced, assessment and is not designed to obtain a precise “score.”
The OR Project is based on the premise that children who are visually impaired or blind
can learn, grow, and develop much like children with normal sight. However, the impact of the visual impairment may change the timing of their development. If the child is blind, some changes and modifications of the learning environment are needed. Most teaching strategies that are successful with children who are sighted are also appropriate for children who are blind or visually impaired. Young children learn best through naturally occurring events and functional activities in their homes and communities.
