Culturally Responsive Pedagogy has not received much attention in the education of students who are blind or visually impaired. These principles and ideas for practice can be incorporated into educational practice for all learners.
This strategy teaches braille students to check their writing to discover and correct their mistakes.
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 recorded free webinar provides an introduction to creating accessible books for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind, presented by Paths to Literacy blogger, Sandy Kenrick.
Basic, broad recommendations I shared with teachers who are holding group zoom meetings with students with CVI (cortical visual impairment)
My name is Gwyn, I am a qualified teacher of visual impairments with 20 years experience. I run an educational consultancy and training service for professionals working with children with visual impairments called Positive Eye, based here in the UK. Positive Eye delivers courses both here and in Europe.
Paths to Literacy can be a useful tool in teacher training programs, inservices or other professional development activities for those working with students who are blind, low vision, deafblind or with multiple disabilities.
Instructional strategies on how to teach literacy skills to children with visual impairments
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