Integrated Literacy Activity: Share the Love of a Story
Ideas for sharing stories with young children who are blind or visually impaired using the On the Way to Literacy series
Ideas for sharing stories with young children who are blind or visually impaired using the On the Way to Literacy series
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.
My name is Sandy Gillam. I am a wife and a mother of two boys. My youngest, Finn, is 11 years old and has typical vision and hearing. My oldest, Liam, age 14, is deafblind.
I am a teacher of the visually impaired at Foundation for Blind Children, where I have been employed for the past five years. The students in my preschool class have multiple disabilities in addition to visual impairments. There have been two students in my classes who are deafblind.