Brown Bear: Part 1 – An Early Braille Lesson Segment For a Child with Multiple Impairments
Tips to introduce braille to students who are struggling readers with multiple impairments
Tips to introduce braille to students who are struggling readers with multiple impairments
Create tactile graphic organizers to support students who are blind, deafblind, visually impaired or with other special needs to sequence stories.
Children with CVI or other types of visual impairment may have empty language, where they do not understand the meaning of words or basic concepts.
Tips to promote the development of basic concepts and prebraille skills in young children who are blind or visually impaired
Tips to make board books and picture books accessible to young children who are blind or visually impaired
Get ideas to create a portfolio for students with low vision and multiple disabilities to demonstrate what they are able to do, with cooking or other independent living skills.
Volunteer service can be a helpful way to provide materials and support to students with visual impairments, including those with multiple disabilities, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virtual learning makes sense for a variety of activities as discovered during the pandemic. Social activities can be done in a virtual group as a way for students to learn and connect with their peers when in-person activities aren’t always possible.
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.
A TVI shares her strategies as part of Oregon’s CVI team to support her students when using their visual skills with 3-D objects to 2-D representation.