Braille Strategies

Below are strategies posts related to Braille.

	Adapting the Daily Job Chart for Full Inclusion By sarahfields Daily job charts are part of many early childhood & elementary classrooms. These ideas make them accessible to children who are blind or visually impaired.
	Adapting the Environment for Independence By sarahfields Find how you can set up your classroom to make it accessible to ALL students!
	Adapting Jigsaw Puzzles for Younger Students By Beth Bartson Adapting puzzles for children who are blind or visually impaired
	Writing in a Daily Journal By Charlotte Cushman Invite students who are blind or visually impaired to write in daily journals to practice writing skills.
	Braille Word Board By Leanne Grillot This hands-on activity allows braille readers to build sentences using braille word cards
	“M is for Mice.” By Laurie Hudson This early braille literacy activity uses real objects to help young children who are blind to learn the dots for each braille letter.
	Labeling the Environment in an Accessible Format By Charlotte Cushman Labeling items in the environment in an accessible format is important for developing literacy skills, as well as O & M or Orientation and Mobility for kids who are blind or visually impaired.
	Sunshine Mangold and Cricket Mangold By Laurie Hudson This activity works on improving hand positions and tracking skills in emerging braille readers.
	Making Pizza By Charlotte Cushman Making pizza can be a functional and meaningful way to incorporate literacy skills for students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities or deafblindness.
	25 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar By Charlotte Cushman This activity uses a braille advent calendar to identify numerals in braille or print while counting down to Christmas.
	Motivating Older Adolescents Who Are Emerging Readers By Megan Mogan This strategy from a speech therapist is designed to help teachers find appropriate literacy instruction for students who have significant multiple disabilities in addition to their visual impairment.
	Tactile Advent Calendar By Charlotte Cushman Tactile advent calendar uses objects
	Book Conversation with Robbie Blaha By Charlotte Cushman This video shows Robbie Blaha, Teacher of the Deafblind at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, having a conversation using a braille book with a student who is deafblind.
	Greek and Latin Roots By WendyPatrone Students can build their vocabularies and decoding skills by learning Greek and Latin roots. Tips for students who are blind or visually impaired
	Tactile Quilts That Tell a Story By Rocky@Perkins There are many ways to tell a story and in this example students who are blind or visually impaired tell stories on tactile quilts.
	Teaching Braille Reading Fluency...Virtually By Charlotte Cushman People often wonder if it's possible to teach braille virtually and this video demonstrates how it can be done.
	Lands Beyond By Becky Hoffman This game is an adaptation of Candyland, based on The Phantom Tollbooth, for students who are blind or visually impaired.
	Wheel of Fortune Game By RJSitten This game gives students practice reading braille words. It could easily be adapted to an inclusive setting.
	Alpha Boxes By Gayle Flegel Fun hands-on activity for beginning braille readers to begin to pair initial letter sounds with the braille alphabet
	Using Objects to Reinforce Consonant Sounds By Mary McCarthy Activity to use objects to reinforce consonant sounds with beginning braille readers