Parents with Visual Impairments

Parents with visual impairments (PVI) are blind or low-vision adults raising children, who are often sighted. PVI face distinctive parenting challenges that go beyond individual functional compensation: supporting children's visually-driven exploration (pointing, gaze, shared looking), responding to spontaneous outdoor discovery, reading non-verbal cues, and accessing child-development resources that are typically designed for sighted parents. Accessibility research on PVI emphasizes reciprocal, relationship-building design rather than purely task-completion assistance, and highlights how sighted children in these families sometimes take on disproportionate caregiving roles.