The article is devoted to one of the complex educational issues, the problem of forming the information culture of the adolescents with visual impairments. The study clarified clarified the structure and content of the concept of "information culture of the adolescent" as an integrative personal quality, which is a set of motivational, informational-content and operational-activity components that reflect the information motives of the teenager.

The structural and functional model of forming the information culture of the adolescents with visual impairments in an inclusive education institution has been developed, based on information, personal-activity, and individual approaches and principles (system-based, dynamism and flexibility, awareness of goals, individualization, feedback, activity, completion of training, reflection, involvement of the adolescent in the design of an individual educational trajectory), combines a set of motivational-target, content-activity and operational-activity stages of teaching. The model allowed us to consistently and holistically consider the natural connections between the individual components of the process under study: the content, the complex of pedagogical conditions, the activity of the teacher and the activity of the teenager, methods, forms, means, outcomes.