Ten Tips to Prepare Your Child to Learn to Read Braille
Practical tips to prepare your child to learn to read braille, include concept development, tactile discrimination, language and motor skills.
Practical tips to prepare your child to learn to read braille, include concept development, tactile discrimination, language and motor skills.
Ideas of activities for families to try at home or in the community with children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities
Modification of the Three Little Pigs story for students who are deafblind include tactile symbols, braille, and print.
This checklist of pre-emerging and emerging literacy skills may be helpful to teachers, families, and others in identifying areas to target in the development of literacy skills in young children who are blind or visually impaired.
This storybox is a favorite at Halloween, using real objects and concrete tactile representations of items and events in the book.
This activity uses real food items along with the book “Lunch Crunch” to make it more meaningful for children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with low vision.
A discussion of the need to expand the definition of literacy for visually impaired students
Geometry materials and activity ideas for teaching students who are blind or visually impaired
In this activity, real objects are paired with object symbols to build an understanding of symbolic representation.
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