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Creating a Braille-Rich Environment at HomeTips on creating a braille-rich environment in the home for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind |
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Adapting Itsy-Bitsy Spider Book for Students with CVITips on adapting books for children with CVI (Cortical Visual Impairment) |
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Christmas Tree ProjectThis Christmas tree activity uses tactile items to teach positional concepts to students who are blind or visually impaired |
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Travel Tins: Magnetic Fun To-GoParent-made materials that can be used to entertain emerging braille readers |
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Christmas Sequence Activity for Students with Visual Impairments and Additional DisabilitiesExperience book to help students with visual impairments and additional disabilities, including deafblindness, to develop early literacy skills. |
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Texture BookCreating a texture book for students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities |
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Texti-SticksThis activity is to help young children develop tactile discrimination skills, matching, and fine motor coordination. Designed for pre-braille or preschool learners who are blind or visually impaired. |
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Bells: A Tactile Book for Emerging Braille ReadersThis tactile book about bells uses real objects and makes sounds. It's sure to be a favorite for the holidays! |
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Advent Calendar for Beginning Braille ReaderThis Advent calendar for beginning braille readers can be used with children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind |
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Build a StoryThis homemade "Build a Book" allows a student with visual impairments to flip through the book to find character, setting, event, and conclusion ideas for a story. |
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Christmas Tactile BooksThis collection of tactile books helps students who are visually impaired understand and visualize the first Christmas story. |
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Holiday Gift TagsThese holiday gift cards provide braille and tactile stickers to make them accessible to children who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind. |
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The Library and Timeless Stories: Using APH Materials to Extend a StoryThese activities use APH materials to extend a story for students who are blind or visually impaired. |
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Integrated Literacy Activity: Share the Love of a StoryIdeas for sharing stories with young children who are blind or visually impaired using the On the Way to Literacy series |
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Student-Created Braille GameA young child who is visually impaired created this braille game for a Kindergarten student who is blind. |
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Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch: A Cross-Curricular Approach to Reading Readiness for BrailleThis cross-curricular approach includes literacy, numeracy, science and humanities including opportunities to develop social skills for children with visual impairment. |
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What Shape Am I?Tactile book of shapes for students who are blind or visually impaired. |
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Interactive Bulletin Board - OctoberA Speech Pathologist (SLP) shares an interactive Halloween activity for students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities |
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Cross Curricular Planning: SeasideTheme-based cross-curricular lessons for children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities |
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Story Box for "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything"This storybox is a favorite at Halloween, using real objects and concrete tactile representations of items and events in the book. |