Tips and ideas to promote writing skills with students who have visual impairments with additional disabilities or deafblindness. Broaden the definition of “writing” through collaborative storytelling and creative play.
“Nemeth in a Box for Middle School Students” is a fun way for students to practice their Nemeth skills and build their math concepts.
These resources include a handbook with practical activities for parents, a video, assessment tools, and a book on tactual functioning.
Tips on selecting a strategy for English learners who are blind or visually impaired
Tips on using Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM) to inform instruction for English learners who are blind or visually impaired
Great Expanded Core family project: grocery shopping for a food bank developed by Robbin Clark for children with visual impairments and their families.
I am a teacher of the visually impaired currently working in Bastrop Independent School District in Texas.
My name is Sandy Gillam. I am a wife and a mother of two boys. My youngest, Finn, is 13 years old and has typical vision and hearing. My oldest, Liam, age 16, is deafblind.
Amy Bayes is a TCVI, COMS, and early childhood special education teacher in Hillsdale County, Michigan. She holds an undergraduate and Master’s degree from Western Michigan University in blindness education and Orientation and Mobility and a Master’s degree in early childhood special education from Eastern Michigan University.
While working as a Braille Transcriber for El Dorado COE, I enjoy teaching and creating braille, producing quality enlarged work for the visually impaired students, and especially, seeing the light go on as children and youth learn concepts.
