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The article focuses on the establishment of sight saving classes in the U.S. Educators found that children with defective vision present a very special teaching problem. In response to this problem, scientific methods are integrated in the teaching process. However, it is recommended that basic teaching methods in this type of special class should be modified to enable effective teaching to visually handicapped children.

Information about several papers discussed at the annual conference of the Ohio Association of Supervisors and Teachers of Sight-Saving Classes in Columbus, Ohio on May 3, 1941 is presented. The programs included a report on research on the improvement of sight-saving classes, demonstration of the dictaphone and talking book as sight-saving devices, as well as a symposium on the idea of sight-saving classes.