Using Textures to Adapt Simple Books
Guidelines to adapt simple books for children who are blind or visually impaired
Guidelines to adapt simple books for children who are blind or visually impaired
Two college students create a story about students with visual impairments.
Tips to make a picture book accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired, with additional disabilities, using storyboxes, tactile and picture symbols, and talking books
Create your own tactile autograph book to make a visit to a theme park, such as Disney World or Disneyland, accessible to children who are blind or visually impaired.
Not all experience or social stories have to be about happy things! Sometimes telling those hard stories can help our children process through their feelings and can provide language to support them.
The Book Creator app can be used to make literacy materials more engaging for students with visual impairments and additional disabilities.
These lessons and activities for transition-aged students who are visually impaired or blind incorporate areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum, e.g. self-determination, daily living skills, writing, getting to know others with vision impairments.
Suggestions for making writing activities more fun and meaningful for students who are blind or visually impaired with multiple disabilities.
Guidelines on using a partial-object based communication system for literacy with children who are blind or visually impaired with multiple disabilities
This article by a psychologist examines some of the common myths surrounding the formal evaluation and assessment of students who are blind or visually impaired.