Overview
Emerging literacy is a process of learning language and concepts, linking them together, and sharing stories in many different forms. Successful literacy is based on building skills in all developmental areas, including movement (both gross and fine motor), social interaction, cognitive concepts, and tactile skills. Come find out how to support successful early literacy!
Creating exciting early literacy can involve adapting existing books and/or creating your own. Always base reading on lived experiences with real objects and people. Adding tactile features to an existing book, and/or accompanying the book reading with real objects that are interesting brings the concepts and the book to life. How do you make reading meaningful and fun?
Children who are tactile learners need to strengthen their fine motor skills in order to be ready for braille instruction. Get ideas to increase tactile discrimination, finger isolation, hand strength, bimanual coordination, tracking, and more. Do you know how to make these activities fun and engaging for young learners?
How do we introduce braille literacy through assistive technology for young children with visual impairments? We make it fun, developmental, and meaningful! Watch a video demonstration showing how tech skills, such as scrolling and 4-chords, can be introduced using a braille notetaker, while also working on attention to auditory details. How do you introduce tech to young children?
Watch this short video example of a young boy reading an object book about bath time. Note how real objects are attached to each page in this interactive book.
