Adapting “If You Take a Mouse to School”
Make an early childhood book accessible to children who are blind or who have CVI (Cortical Visual Impairment) or multiple disabilities.
Make an early childhood book accessible to children who are blind or who have CVI (Cortical Visual Impairment) or multiple disabilities.
Ideas to make “Bear Feels Sick” accessible to students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities
Using images of items that children with CVI (cortical visual impairment) are motivated by can help to motivate them and develop literacy skills.
Adaptation of “Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons” Book for students with CVI.
Students in a small reading group can have success in active participation by creating a positive experience with realistic, short-term goals.
Tracy Wilks a TVI (Teacher of students with visual impairments) and CVI expert adds movement to salient features of words using the Motionleap app. This can be a helpful strategy for students with CVI.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Penrickton Center for Blind Children, and Perkins have collaborated to create the Active Learning Space website devoted to the instructional techniques and theories of Dr. Lilli Nielsen.
The Salient Features Dictionary is based on the work of Dr. Christine Roman-Lantzy and can be used to help children with CVI (cortical visual impairment) to recognize distinctive information about something in order to be able to identify it.
This documentary from BBC Scotland explores cerebral visual impairment (CVI), with interviews with people affected by it, as well as an ophthalmologist and Prof. Gordon Dutton.
Tips to introduce books, reading and literacy to young children who are blind or visually impaired