The Hunt Is On!
A scavenger hunt in the mall is a great way for students who are blind or visually impaired to work on literacy skills, orientation & mobility, and other areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC).
A scavenger hunt in the mall is a great way for students who are blind or visually impaired to work on literacy skills, orientation & mobility, and other areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC).
This team from Vietnam outlines different levels of books, from experience books to tactile representations of abstract concepts, for young children who are blind or visually impaired.
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.
The parent of a 6-year-old boy in Slovenia shares ideas to help him develop concepts, as well as functional skills by participating in daily household routines.
Lisha has been a TVI (teacher of the visually impaired) for over 25 years. She has worked in the classroom at Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. Lisha was an itinerant teacher for 18 years at the Montgomery County IU specializing in early intervention.
I am a teacher of the visually impaired currently working in Bastrop Independent School District in Texas.
I teach preschool children who are visually impaired and have been at the Foundation for Blind Children and absolutely love it! I love to work with young children, but I also provide some itinerant orientation and mobility services for a few students to help keep variety in my work life.
Enjoying creating fun seasonal tactile books for beginning braille readers
Kathi Garza is a TVI and an Early Childhood consultant in the Outreach Department at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She has worked in the classroom with students who have visual impairments and complex access needs, as well as in Short-Term and Summer Programs.
While working as a Braille Transcriber for El Dorado COE, I enjoy teaching and creating braille, producing quality enlarged work for the visually impaired students, and especially, seeing the light go on as children and youth learn concepts.