[[alternative]]The Study of Visual Impaired Students' Progress after Teaching the Knowledges of Colors

[[abstract]]The purpose of this research was to explore the awareness of colors for visual impaired students in the teaching process and the application in their daily lives. The qualitative research method was employed. The data was gathered by the interviews with the participants of study before and after teaching, the important records during actual teaching classes, the questionnaire survey pre and after classes, and the participants of study’s gains from learning. Through the data gathered from interviews, actual classes, observations, records, pre and after questionnaire surveys, the researcher analyzes the differences of the objects of the study before and after the classes and to probe into what the participants of the study have learn via this research process. The findings were as follows: I.Visual impaired students’ awareness of colors before the teaching process: This research included four visual impaired students, each of them has different visual situations, backgrounds and different environmental elements, the interactions with other people, and the awareness and usage of colored knowledge are different, too. But they all agree with that they need a professional artistic teacher to instruct them in colors. II. During the classes, visual impaired students’ awareness of colors: Due to the questionnaire surveys before and after the classes, all of the four have made a progress about the knowledge of color. Especially in “recognize color by idioms” and “recognize color by painting”which are abstract and students are not familiar with, they have 50% progress. But in “recognize color by food”and “recognize color by nature” which are more relevance in our daily life, the progress didn’t show that much.In other units, students have 27.5%-35% progress. III. Students’ gains from learning after the classes: Visual impaired students hope that by learning colors can help them have more chances to interact with the public. They also like to understand the relevance between abstract colors and their characteristic, so they can pick up the color which is fit with their characteristic. And they expect they can use this knowledge in their daily life. In conclusion, this research get the point that despite the differences between each visual impaired students, they all want to learn more about colors and have a colorful life. But the public usually think that visual impaired people don’t need color, this is definitely not true. In our country, now are lack of teachers with both special education and art. My suggestions are the government should work on visual impaired students’ artistic education, and develop the color-teaching course suitable for visual impaired students. At the same time, we should treasure the time they can see and the key age of learning colors and teach them about the knowledges of colors.