The pandemic has created unique learning opportunities, as parents try to juggle their own work, with teaching their children, and family life. Families can use this time to create a schedule and promote independence.
The author details the Walking Through Stories strategy used to help students activate prior knowledge of concepts before reading a story. She discusses how this strategy can be implemented at home using tactile pictures or real objects.
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Suggestions on fostering interaction and bonding between parents and babies, toddlers, and young children who are blind or visually impaired
Exploration of the development of communication with children who are congenitally deafblind through components of a great conversation and sharing experiences. Suggestions for co-creating language with individuals with multi-sensory impairment.
Step-by-step instructions telling how to get set up in Google Classroom for Braille In-Service Training
A TVI shares her experience creating a pegboard book for a student with CVI (cortical visual impairment) and multiple disabilities.
Suggestions to support students with CVI (Cerebral/Cortical visual impairment) during remote learning, using personal identifiers in a step-by-step routine
A concrete symbol can be used with students with multiple disabilities to indicate the beginning and end of an activity.
The PenFriend is a voice labeling system that uses a simple device to create recordings associated with sticker labels.
