“Bear Feels Sick”: Accessible Ideas for Children with Multiple Disabilities
Ideas to make “Bear Feels Sick” accessible to students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities
Ideas to make “Bear Feels Sick” accessible to students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities
Using images of items that children with CVI (cortical visual impairment) are motivated by can help to motivate them and develop literacy skills.
Adaptation of “Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons” Book for students with CVI.
Students in a small reading group can have success in active participation by creating a positive experience with realistic, short-term goals.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Penrickton Center for Blind Children, and Perkins have collaborated to create the Active Learning Space website devoted to the instructional techniques and theories of Dr. Lilli Nielsen.
This documentary from BBC Scotland explores cerebral visual impairment (CVI), with interviews with people affected by it, as well as an ophthalmologist and Prof. Gordon Dutton.
Volunteer service can be a helpful way to provide materials and support to students with visual impairments, including those with multiple disabilities, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ideas to promote fire safety with children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with CVI. Includes tips to adapt fire safety information in different formats.
Katie Chiaratti is a stay-at-home mom to two sweet boys, Teddy (age 8, with CVI and cerebral palsy) and Henry (age 2, climbing monster and giver of gray hairs). She has a BA in child development, a teaching credential, and a masters in education.
Lauren is the mother of a girl with cortical visual impairment (CVI).