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Adapting picture books for children with visual impairments

Introducing books to babies and young children who are blind or visually impaired includes tactile adaptations, creating experience books, and braille.

Create your own accessible record-keeping book to track work of braille students

Kids aren’t always drawn to the “perfect” CVI book so be willing to follow your child’s lead. It’s much easier to adapt a book for vision than it is to manufacture an interest in reading.

Ideas for adapting “Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash!” for students with visual impairments, including those with multiple disabilities

Ideas to adapt “One Rainy Day” for children with visual impairments and multiple disabilities

Guidelines on modifying books and other literacy materials and activities for children with cortical visual impairment (CVI)

Speech Therapists and Teachers of the Visually Impaired teamed up to create tactile books for students who are blind or visually impaired, included those with multiple disabilities. Includes planning sheet with objectives, materials, and labels.

This alphabetical reference list of objects, actions, and food can be used instead of pictures for language development, alphabet books, and other instructional activities. Most of these objects are readily available and familiar to children.

Suggestions for literacy activities that can be done at home with children who are blind or visually impaired, including braille books, large print books, DAISY format CD’s, audio books, and electronic files.