Supporting Tactile Images with Real Experience and Concrete Materials
Providing real experiences and concrete objects is a helpful first step in teaching students with visual impairments to interpret tactile images.
Providing real experiences and concrete objects is a helpful first step in teaching students with visual impairments to interpret tactile images.
This game is designed to give students with low vision who are learning braille practice with the braille contractions: upon, word, these, those, whose, cannot, had, many, spirit, world and their.
Tactile mosaic flags are a fun crafts project for the 4th of July for kids who are blind or visually impaired. Students can work on skills such as literacy, counting, matching, sorting, and patterns.
This short passage uses all UEB (Unified English Braille) contractions and is a fun way to provide practice for braille readers.
These wooden Christmas trees have drawers and can be labelled with braille to make accessible Advent calendars for children who are blind, low vision or deafblind, or with multiple disabilities.
Making table centerpieces for the holidays is a fun crafts activity, and also a possible vocational option for older students.
Tactile paper dolls offer lots of opportunities to work on functional skills and many areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum, such as independent living, career exploration, and social skills.
Making tactile cards for Valentine’s Day is a great way for students who are blind or visually impaired to practice braille and other skills from the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC).
Baggie Experience Books are a great way to help young children or learners with deafblindness or multiple disabilities to make the transition from real objects to beginning literacy.
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.