Long White Cane Techniques: Motivating Young Children with Special Activities
Guidelines to plan special activities to motivate long cane users while incorporating braille and other literacy activities; could also be used for White Cane Day!
Guidelines to plan special activities to motivate long cane users while incorporating braille and other literacy activities; could also be used for White Cane Day!
Students who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind can share what’s important to them with their classmates in an inclusive setting.
Psychologist Marnee Loftin shares information about learning disabilities in students who are blind or visually impaired.
The author details the Walking Through Stories strategy used to help students activate prior knowledge of concepts before reading a story. She discusses how this strategy can be implemented at home using tactile pictures or real objects.
Step-by-step instructions telling how to get set up in Google Classroom for Braille In-Service Training
A psychologist shares a collaborative model of evaluation for students with low incidence disabilities, such as visual impairment. Find out how Teachers of the Visually Impaired (TVIs) and evaluation personnel can work closely together.
The parent of a 6-year-old boy in Slovenia shares ideas to help him develop concepts, as well as functional skills by participating in daily household routines.
I love to teach early braille literacy and wrote about this in “Introducing Braille,” an iBook with 14 linked video clips of actual insturction, sold for $9.95 on the iTunes store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/introducing-braille/id876037547?mt=11.
I am a retired teacher of students with visual impairments with 34 years of teaching and 10 years of consulting in the Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA. During my career, I had the opportunity to work with numerous braille learners in both itinerant and resource room settings.
Roberta’s book, Unified English Braille (UEB) Practice Sentences, Second Edition, provides comprehensive practice sentences for each braille contraction, set up in a sequential, easy-to-learn format. It also contains many of the more commonly used punctuation and symbols. Roberta’s latest book, BrailleBlazer: Beginning Braille Reading Activity Book.