New Classroom, New Finds!
Empower your students with visual impairments to orient themselves in their new classroom with a scavenger hunt using these ideas and resources.
Empower your students with visual impairments to orient themselves in their new classroom with a scavenger hunt using these ideas and resources.
Learn how this TSVI and mom developed an activity to work on texting skills, including improving efficiency, with a “spin and text” game.
Texting is an important telecommunication skill that is especially important to someone who is deafblind. Learn about this creative way to teach this skill.
American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project (ADP) and the
Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) are now accepting entries for the Benefits of Audio Description in Education, an essay contest.
This can be adapted to ANY age group and can be changed to meet the needs of each individual student. Use these ideas as a starting point to become units, days, weeks, years of learning. Never take a lesson and end it, keep it going. Numbers last forever.
Forest bathing, the practice of immersing oneself in nature, can be a benefit for children with visual impairments. Here is a guide to exploring forest bathing.
YouTube can be a great learning tool but some students may benefit from a slower playback speed.
Explore videos that provide simple, plain backgrounds, and music for children with Cortical/Cerebral Vision Impairment (CVI).
October Exhale is a term used by teachers when September is over and there is a sense of routine in the school day and more work can get done.
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.