The term expanded core curriculum (ECC) is used to define concepts and skills that often require specialized instruction with students who are blind or visually impaired in order to compensate for decreased opportunities to learn incidentally by observing others. In addition to the general education core curriculum that all students are taught, students with visual impairments, starting at birth, also need instruction in the ECC. -TSBVI
There are 9 areas of ECC, the month of March is devoted to assistive technology.
Student Activities
- Create a maintenance schedule for charging/updating your electronics
- Paths to Literacy: Technology to Access Curriculum
- Take a creative photograph in a style that could be used in a magazine
- Tell us what your favorite app is and why
- Paths to Literacy: Where AT and Braille Meet
- Make a list of all of your adaptive equipment and tell what each is used for
- Paths to Literacy: Overview of AT
Teacher Activities
- Have your student make a video on an AT device they use
- Paths to Literacy: Tech for Students with low vision
- Conduct an AT assessment on your student
- Paths to Literacy: AT assessment
- Do a lesson with your student on their iPad
- Paths to Literacy: iPads as AT
- Have your student set up a bluetooth speaker/device
- Paths to Literacy: AT to Support STEM
Family Activities
- Have your child sign up for Bookshare
- Participate in the Maryland Braille Challenge
- Download the BARD mobile app for access to braille and audio books
- Try an AT loan through the MDTAP Loan Library
Enter this month to win a $50 gift card.
Deadline: April 1, 2026 to be eligible to win!
