Orientation and Mobility Strategies

Below are strategies posts related to Orientation and Mobility.

	Decorating Christmas Trees: Understanding Models By Liz Eagan Decorating Christmas trees offer a chance to practice positional and spatial concepts, and to teach students about small scale models of large trees.
	Tips for Teaching How to Create a Signature By jfreeman Practical ideas on how to teach individuals who are blind or visually impaired to create a written signature.
	Creating a Book for a Braille Reader with CVI: Max and His Cane By Liamsmom This simple braille book tells the story about an 8-year-old boy who loses his cane. The colored illustrations are appealing for children with CVI.
	Nature Walk By Liz Eagan Nature walks can inspire students with visual impairments to write about what they find.
	Making Our Mudroom Accessible By Kimberly Schildbach The mother of children who are blind tells how she used braille labels to make the family mudroom accessible to the whole family.
	Braille Cell Pizza Twists By laceyjo22 Making pizza twists is a fun way to incorporate the Expanded Core Curriculum with braille skills.
	Winter Tactile Experience Book: Snow, Snow, What Do You See? By Juarezs This hands-on activity gives beginning braille readers a chance to create a tactile book about winter.
	Mia's Mix: An Integrated Approach to the ECC By Patrick Hector Ideas to incorporate the ECC, literacy, and numeracy into an integrated series of lessons for students with visual impairments
	Writing a Thank You Letter By Liz Eagan Teaching students to write thank-you notes gives them a chance to practice braille or print skills, as well as developing social skills.
	Activities to Develop Auditory Skills By Chris Tabb Activities to develop auditory discrimination and listening skills in children and youth who are blind or visually impaired
	Cracking the Code: A Braille Reading Mystery By Braille77 In this activity, students who are blind or visually impaired are challenged to find and decode braille signs in hotels, restaurants and stores.
	Practicing Braille Reading in the Community By Braille77 Look for ways to encourage students with visual impairments to practice their braille skills in the natural environment.
	White Cane Pointer By Liz Eagan Make pointers for students who are blind or visually impaired to share on White Cane Day!
	Smoothies! A Classroom Lesson and Community Based-Experience By Diane Shifflett This hands-on series of lessons addresses literacy, math, O & M, and other parts of the ECC (Expanded Core Curriculum) for students who are blind or visually impaired.
	The Big Island Restaurant and Bakery for Younger Kids with Visual Impairments By Kristie Smith This set of activities uses APH materials to extend a story about The Big Island Restaurant and Bakery.
	Fire Alarm Pull Stations By Liz Eagan Hands-on activity looking at fire safety and helping students with visual impairments understand fire alarm pull stations.
	Banking Counts: Using APH Materials to Extend a Story By Kristie Smith This activity uses materials from APH to help students who are blind or visually impaired to manage their money and learn about banking.
	O&M and Explanatory Text By wpatrone Students will utilize proper sentence structure, grammar usage, punctuation, and spelling through this O&M and Explanatory Text.
	Learning Prepositional Phrases through O&M By wpatrone This activity for students with visual impairments incorporates writing and the use of prepositional phrases
	O&M Literacy: "Pairs" Game By Laurie Hudson This Orientation and Mobility activity is designed help students to refine their cognitive maps of their schools and to develop their estimations of time lapsed.