By Katie Armstrong, Preschool Teacher at the Foundation for Blind Children, Phoenix, Arizona
(This blog post is a follow-up to Story Box Ideas for Holiday Stories)
I teach in a preschool classroom for students with visual impairments, and love every second...
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By Jaime Brown
by Jaime Brown and Katie Armstrong, Preschool Teachers at the Foundation for Blind Children, Phoenix, Arizona. (Editor's note: Jaime and Katie both teach children who are blind or visually impaired and Jaime's class includes children with...
By Laurie Hudson
Laurie Hudson, the 2012 Braille Institute Braille Challenge Teacher of the Year, shares strategies for teaching braille to our youngest readers. She believes that young children benefit from an approach to braille that is developmental, meaningful and...
By Faye Gonzalez
By Faye Gonzalez, TVI & COMS
The iPad is an awesome tool for children with disabilities, including those with visual impairments as well as other multiple disabilities (MD/VI). Now you have an iPad – but how do you and your kiddos get...
By Charlotte Cushman
What is a Calendar Box or Anticipation Calendar?
Calendar boxes provide a way to help children who are deafblind or blind or visually impaired with additional disabilities to anticipate what will happen in their day. Using real objects from the...
By Charlotte Cushman
October is Health Literacy Month and, according to their website, it is "a time for organizations and individuals to promote the importance of understandable health information." For many of the students we teach, it can be difficult to make...
By Charlotte Cushman
Children who are blind or visually impaired need to have access to books, just as other children do. Because they may not be able to see the illustrations and print, however, books will need to be adapted or modified in order for the experience to be...