CVI Favorites: Books
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.
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.
Create your own accessible record-keeping book to track work of braille students
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
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.
An exploration of tactile illustrations and tips to make meaningful tactile experience books for young children who are blind or visually impaired
Ideas to make “Pete the Cat” accessible to students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities, using a story box, tactile symbols, picture cards, and a talking book
Tips to make “If You Give a Pig a Pancake” into a story box, as well as picture communication cards and tactile symbols
A parent provides step by step instructions on how to make an experience book with a young boy who is deafblind as an early step toward literacy