In building an equitable and quality education system, South Africa has embraced an inclusive education approach in which the diverse needs of all learners must be accommodated. This move, as well as the additional pressures that a fast-changing world places on education, requires teachers constantly to adapt their instruction, the curriculum and the classroom environment (physical and virtual) to increase learner involvement and to minimise the exclusion of those learners who experience barriers to learning. Learner support in a diverse classroom provides a good balance between the theoretical knowledge needed to understand what takes place when a child learns, and the hands-on provision of assessment and support for the learner. Learner support in a diverse classroom offers creative solutions and solid foundations to any teacher wishing to bring out the best from his or her learners. It can serve as a manual on the practical ways to provide quality education, especially to those learners who experience special challenges in an inclusive environment. Learner support in a diverse classroom is aimed at all teachers and student teachers, and will also be of great use to parents.

Disabling conditions such as visual impairments impede vocational development. Vocational development for such individuals is particularly difficult due to reduced orientation and mobility, sensory or mental impairment, prolonged medical treatment and functional limitations associated with such disability. Furthermore restricted early experiences, social immaturity, social attitudes toward disability label for instance blindness and unrealistic aspirations or lower aspirations could also affect their self-acceptance and hinder adequate vocational self-concept. The aim of this book is describe the kind of career information that students with visual impairments acquire from school and to what extent this information facilitates or hampers their development of vocational self-concept and consequently their career decision making Self-efficacy. It explores the current status of students with visual impairments regarding their ability to understand their aptitudes and potentials, realistically accepting their limitations and making independent decisions in career choices.