Strategies

Below are strategies for all content areas.






Single knob on puzzle

Adapting Puzzles for Students with Multiple Impairments

By Liz Eagan
Tips to adapt puzzle pieces for children with multiple disabilities
braille writer

Providing Wrist Support for Braille Writer

By Liz Eagan
Tips to provide wrist support to a child using a braillewriter
liam's quiet book

Quiet Books

By Liamsmom
Create a Quiet Book for children who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. Children with multiple disabilities can also enjoy these versatile books!
woman holding basket over table of christmas items

Christmas Ideas for Children with Visual Impairments

By Gwyn McCormack
These creative holiday activities for Christmas or Hanukkah for children who are blind or visually impaired encourage the development of basic skills and social interaction, while having fun!
liam reading braille on microwave

Using Braille in the Kitchen!

By Liamsmom
This activity uses braille labels and tactile symbols to create a braille recipe for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind
candy canes collage

Braille Design: Candy Canes!

By Edith West
Create a braille design of a candy cane for Christmas!
zip bag with flashcards

Storage Ideas for Teaching Materials

By Liz Eagan
Some unique and unconventional ideas for organizing teaching materials for students who are blind or visually impaired
christmas elf

Braille Design: Christmas Elf!

By Edith West
Braille design of a Christmas elf
Lunch monkey

Adaptation of What's for Lunch?

By Charlotte Cushman
Adapting books for students who are deafblind or blind or visually impaired with additional disabilities
braille design: dreidel

Braille Design: Dreidel!

By Edith West
Braille design of a dreidel is a fun way to celebrate Hanukkah with people who are blind or visually impaired!
liam at his desk with his schedule

Daily Desk Schedule for Child Who Is Deafblind

By Liamsmom
Create a tactile schedule using object symbols, print and braille for learners who are blind, deafblind, visually impaired or with multiple disabilities.
star of david braille design collage

Braille Design: Star of David!

By Edith West
Braille design of the Star of David is a fun way to celebrate Hanukkah with people who are blind or visually impaired!
Mrs. Gringling

Keywords from Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

By Gwyn McCormack
Introduce keywords to beginning braille readers using tactile materials to develop braille literacy skills
M braille tracking sheet

Beginning Braille Tracking Worksheets to Emboss

By Liz Eagan
These embossed worksheets offer lots of great practice for beginning braille readers to work on tracking skills
categorized braille teaching

Learning the Code Through Categories

By Karen Carl
Ideas to teach the braille code using categories of contractions or forms of words to speed up braille literacy skills
3 binders

On the Path to Being an Itinerant with Several School Districts

By Braille77
Tips to get organized as an itinerant teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
yellow tray with green plate, an apple and a blue cup

What's In It for Me?

By Braille77
This activity invites students with multiple disabilities or deaf blindness to make choices
alphabet card with an "a"

Tactile Alphabet Cards

By Liz Eagan
Create a tactile alphabet book for pre-braille students who are blind or visually impaired
categorized braille teaching

Bee Bop Braille: Teaching Code through Categories

By Karen Carl
Bee Bop Braille uses songs to work on braille literacy.
Advice for braille readers

Advice for Braille Readers

By Liz Eagan
Advice from a dual media student to others learning braille

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