I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

adaptive environment for blind and partially sighted students, software for blind and partially sighted students, hardware for visually impaired students.

The article gives detailed consideration of modern scientific research made on the problem of creation of adaptive environment for visually impaired students in teacher training universities. The authors give psychophysiological features of blind and partially sighted persons. The research also analyses the results of the survey conducted among teachers which is based on the problem of teaching blind and partially sighted students, describes different types of software and hardware used for teaching visually impaired students and which allow to facilitate teaching process of such students, outlines practice of implementation of the described soft- and hardware and reveals the most efficient kinds.

Григорьева Елена Николаевна – кандидат педагогических наук, доцент кафедры английского языка Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: elenic82@rambler.ru

Николаева Елена Витальевна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры английского языка Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: elenarosa09@gmail.com

Семенова Елена Сергеевна – кандидат педагогических наук, доцент, заведующая кафедрой английского языка Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И. Я. Яковлева, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: zolushka-j@list.ru