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Dr. Sara Begum is a lecturer in Special Education in Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has been a teacher of training teacher for visually impaired children supervising and guiding the students working in this field. She hold a B.Sc., Degree from Delhi University, and M.Ed., M.Phil (Education) and Ph.D. (Education) from the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia. She entered in this field by providing services voluntarily in different special schools for the Blind, in Delhi. Form there she got an insight and inspiration to pursue work on visually impaired children. During her work she learned the visually impaired children have the talents and potential for all learning inspite of visual deprivation but the unfavourable environment and the attitude of the family and community put them in double disadvantage she strived to screen those affect the thinking of visually impaired children. Her research focused on a new learning approach, which has not been researched hitherto.