Hi all,

My son has compressive optic neuropathy, combined with significant white matter encephalopathy that creates visual processing issues. He has a lot of functional vision, but that doesn't obviate the fact that he's legally blind with significant vision loss. He is in a mainastream science class and is being evaluated for a large proportion of his grade on looking at charts, diagrams and other visual input, and then comparing, evaluating, etc. He's failing - no surprise there. It frustrates him beyond belief (of course!) and makes me so angry. The school is 100% willing to give him a Pass/Fail option, to work with him on accomodations, but what I really want to know - is there a non-vision based curriculum on biology? I love biology - I think the story of how life works is incredible. He hates it because of the situation he is in. Is there something I can offer him as another option? I'd love to find something to give to his teachers and ask for modified curriculum, but even if they didn't accept it, I'd love to offer him another option to actually learn the topic. Thanks all!