Back To School In 2022
As we prepare for the new school year, here are some helpful tips, tricks, ideas, forms, and links that will help make your school year a big success.
As we prepare for the new school year, here are some helpful tips, tricks, ideas, forms, and links that will help make your school year a big success.
An overview of storyboxes and storyboards as literacy tools for students who are blind or visually impaired with additional disabilities, including deafblindness
A list of books and contents of story boxes recommended for young children who are blind or visually impaired
Introduction to object communication and calendar systems as a bridge to literacy for children who are blind or visually impaired with multiple disabilities or deafblindness
Seedlings is sharing a virtual tour of the braille books production facility. Seedlings has been dedicated to increasing the opportunity for literacy and education by providing high quality braille books for children at a low cost.
The National Center on Improving Literacy and Idaho’s Department of Education have created a short, two and a half minute video to highlight the importance of playing with sounds and spoken words to develop strong listening and reading skills.
Guidelines to adapt simple books for children who are blind or visually impaired
Create books for children with cortical visual impairment (CVI) using simple materials with limited complexity.
This strategy from a speech therapist is designed to help teachers find appropriate literacy instruction for students who have significant multiple disabilities in addition to their visual impairment.
Collect items from the environment to reinforce beginning literacy skills during orientation and mobility lessons.