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.
Create a Quiet Book for children who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision.
Ideas to use the story “The Cow Who Clucked” to introduce animals & animal sounds to young students with visual impairments or multiple disabilities, using a storybox, tactile and picture symbols
“Out of the Dust” is a novel based on the Dust Bowl. Adapt the story for students with visual impairments using a storybox, tactile symbols, picture symbols, or a talking book.
Tips to make early literacy book Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza accessible to young children who are blind or visually impaired, using storybox, picture and tactile symbols
Ideas to adapt “Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday” for students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities
Pegboard books are a wonderful early literacy tool using real objects for young children who are blind or visually impaired, as well as learners who with deafblindness or multiple disabilities
Discover new strategies to help your student learn braille.
Explore “The Going to Bed Book” in with steps and ideas to making a book box for your students with visual impairments.
Tips to modify books for children who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or who have multiple disabilities
