Dual media strategies and activities for print readers who are learning braille. These ideas are designed for students who already know how to read print, but are beginning braille at a later time.
Water balloons are an example of an experience story, where the student retells the experience with the adult.
In this pretend story, a boy acts out the cycles of a washing machine, which helps him to self-regulate his emotions and activity level.
A first grader who is totally blind plays with his sighted classmate, creating a robot from rolling bookshelves to support their creative storytelling, with support from a speech language pathologist.
The purpose of the Row Boat Ride story is to introduce the emotion meter, which will later be used by the student and adult to identify and describe their own and others’ levels of emotion.
In this experience story, a girl who is deafblind creates a book about her trip to the restaurant and then watching a boy fly a kite.
A boy who is deafblind goes to the drum store with his teacher. He writes an experience story with his Speech Language Pathologist when he gets back to school, which reinforces language and concepts.
In this video we see a preschool boy who is deafblind sharing his experience story with his classmates.
Find out more details about each of the six essential components of the Playing with Words approach.
Students with visual impairments and additional disabilities discuss their experiences with storytelling.
