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.
Tips on using a CVI Overlay with children with CVI, Phase III based on the 10 characteristics of CVI, identified by Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy.
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.
Spring celebrations make learning fun this season. Use this book to springboard literacy goals.
Experience books are very impactful for students. Read how this TVI made a positive balloon activity into a book for her student with CVI.
This article discusses the impact of literacy on the Expanded Core Curriculum and encourages parents and teachers to examine current methodology and practices for providing instruction to visually impaired students.
Chancey Fleet, a technology coordinator at the New York Public Library’s Braille and Talking Book Center, shares ideas for preparing blind children to create, use, and enjoy tactile graphics.
As we settle in for a cold winter season, use these ideas to explore the world around us with adaptations for our students with visual impairments.
