Expanded Essential Components
Find out more details about each of the six essential components of the Playing with Words approach.
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.
Helping children who are blind or visually impaired or deafblind to tell their stories is very important to their social, emotional and cognitive development, especially communication and literacy.
Explore what we mean by “play” and how it relates to the co-creation of stories.
Early literacy for young children who are blind or visually impaired includes language and concept development, routines, and early exposure to books
Instructional strategies on how to teach literacy skills to children with visual impairments
An overview of auditory strategies as a path to literacy for students who are blind or visually impaired
Introduction to object communication and calendar systems as a bridge to literacy for children who are blind or visually impaired with multiple disabilities or deafblindness
The Wilson Reading System® (WRS)* can help struggling readers in 2-12th grades increase their literacy skills. Dr. Kay Pruett, Wilson® Dyslexia Practitioner (W.D.P.), demonstrates ways to adapt the Wilson Reading System in a way that is appropriate for braille readers.
Mercy is a fifth-grade student who started a new public school this year after spending a year and a half doing virtual learning, one year of that being with REACH Cyber Charter School. Mercy’s first language was Mandarin.