Ideas for Maintaining Braille Skills During Summer Break
Helpful ideas for helping students to maintain braille skills during summer holidays
Helpful ideas for helping students to maintain braille skills during summer holidays
Personal stories show the importance of braille in the lives of two young women.
The mother of a boy who is deafblind shares ideas on inviting family and friends to help to create a tactile book to celebrate his birthday.
Ideas to support friendships between children who are blind or deafblind and typical peers through braille literacy experience creating accessible books
Introducing books to babies and young children who are blind or visually impaired includes tactile adaptations, creating experience books, and braille.
Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH) presents challenges to children, as well as to teachers and parents. Many children with ONH have sensory processing difficulties & may exhibit autistic-like tendencies.
TSBVI Librarian Renee Toy shares ideas on summer reading for students who are blind or visually impaired, including book suggestions for students of all ages, discussion of setting up a Maker Space in the library, Bookshare, and more.
ASL meets Braille Books: The Jack Series is designed for a new braille reader who has already been introduced to braille and whose primary language is ASL. This would be a good book to share with families of children who are deafblind.
This article provides a brief overview of the Braille Brain training program whose goal is to promote literacy and STEM instruction provided by pre-service and in-service TSVIs, paraprofessionals, parents and educational team members.
Braille Brain is a special collection designed to promote literacy and STEM instruction.