Teaching Students Through Virtual Services
Tips to teach students with visual impairments through virtual services, using Zoom web conferencing for instruction in braille, Orientation and Mobility, use of Bookshare, and study skills.
Tips to teach students with visual impairments through virtual services, using Zoom web conferencing for instruction in braille, Orientation and Mobility, use of Bookshare, and study skills.
In addition to the many challenges that students with visual impairments face academically online, it can be difficult to find opportunities to socialize with peers. Families can try these ideas during this period of at-home learning.
Learn how to use a lightbox to provide access to literacy for students with visual impairments and additional disabilities.
QR Codes linking to YouTube videos of stories being read aloud are a great way to make books accessible to families of young braille readers who are English Language Learners.
Tips in the assessment process of Complexity of Array for Children and Youth with CVI (Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment)
My name is Sandy Gillam. I am a wife and a mother of two boys. My youngest, Finn, is 13 years old and has typical vision and hearing. My oldest, Liam, age 16, is deafblind.
Kathi Garza is a TVI and an Early Childhood consultant in the Outreach Department at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She has worked in the classroom with students who have visual impairments and complex access needs, as well as in Short-Term and Summer Programs.
While working as a Braille Transcriber for El Dorado COE, I enjoy teaching and creating braille, producing quality enlarged work for the visually impaired students, and especially, seeing the light go on as children and youth learn concepts.
Samantha is a former graduate student in the Teacher Preparation Program in Visual Impairments at the University of Kentucky.