Sensory Curriculum Ideas – Journey to the Shop
This activity helps children who are blind or visually impaired to develop sensory skills through a trip to visit different kinds of stores and shops.
This activity helps children who are blind or visually impaired to develop sensory skills through a trip to visit different kinds of stores and shops.
These ideas for theme-based multi-sensory activities help children with visual impairments to develop literacy and numeracy skills, as well as visual, auditory, and tactile awareness.
Check out all these ideas from our talented vision community that you can adapt to meet the needs and goals of your students who have visual impairments.
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.
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.
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.
I am a teacher of the visually impaired currently working in Bastrop Independent School District in Texas.
Kimberly works for San Diego public schools as an Orientation and Mobility Specialist. She was a teacher in the Early Learning Center at Perkins School for the Blind and is still a certified TSVI.
Amy Shepherd, M.Ed., is a Parent Liaison for the Michigan Department of Education Low Incidence Outreach (MDE-LIO) and an Expert Substitute Teacher for the Washtenaw Intermediate School District (WISD) Teachers for the Visually Impaired team.
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.