Strategies

Below are strategies for all content areas.






coat hanger with "Liam" label in braille

Creating a Braille-Rich Environment at Home

By Liamsmom
Tips on creating a braille-rich environment in the home for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind
3 different fire pull stations

Fire Alarm Pull Stations

By Liz Eagan
Hands-on activity looking at fire safety and helping students with visual impairments understand fire alarm pull stations.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out...

Adapting Itsy-Bitsy Spider Book for Students with CVI

By Charlotte Cushman
Tips on adapting books for children with CVI (Cortical Visual Impairment)
high frequency words

Practicing Reading High Frequency Words in Braille

By Gwyn McCormack
Suggestions for adapting a reading lesson on recognizing high frequency words (such as "the", "and", "a", "said" and "to") for braille readers.
blue tokens stacked on pegboard

Tips on Adapting Classroom Materials for Students with Albinism

By Liz Eagan
Tips on Adapting Classroom Materials for Students with Albinism
Money Handling and Budgeting Kit

Banking Counts: Using APH Materials to Extend a Story

By Kristie Smith
This activity uses materials from APH to help students who are blind or visually impaired to manage their money and learn about banking.
word association labels

Recess Choice Board

By Liz Eagan
This activity is designed to make the braille code more meaningful to a young reader who is visually impaired using a recess choice board.
assorted dinosaur toys

Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish

By Gwyn McCormack
Ideas for incorporating skills for students with visual impairments from across the curriculum, including literacy, numeracy and more
shapes on a lazy susan

19 Ideas to Teach Basic Math Concepts to Students with Visual Impairments

By Gwyn McCormack
Tips to provide access to mathematics for students who are blind or visually impaired
proofreaders marks

Making Proofreaders' Marks Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments

By WendyPatrone
Tips on making proofreaders' marks accessible to those who are blind or visually impaired
lighthouse and a library side by side

The Lighthouse of All Time - Library

By Kristie Smith
This activity uses items from American Printing House (APH) to teach metaphors to students who are visually impaired.
garland shaped into a tree with fuzzy pom poms on a piece of yellow paper

Christmas Tree Project

By Liz Eagan
This Christmas tree activity uses tactile items to teach positional concepts to students who are blind or visually impaired
travel tin example

Travel Tins: Magnetic Fun To-Go

By Liamsmom
Parent-made materials that can be used to entertain emerging braille readers
Cover of Christmas Sequence book

Christmas Sequence Activity for Students with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

By Charlotte Cushman
Experience book to help students with visual impairments and additional disabilities, including deafblindness, to develop early literacy skills.
josh's texture book cover

Texture Book

By cuppsa
Creating a texture book for students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities
texti-sticks

Texti-Sticks

By Liz Eagan
This activity is to help young children develop tactile discrimination skills, matching, and fine motor coordination. Designed for pre-braille or preschool learners who are blind or visually impaired.
Christmas braille design collage

Braille Designs for Christmas

By Edith West
Braille Christmas designs are a fun holiday craft project for braille users!
Linda Hoyt

Alphaboxes Graphic Organizer

By Paths to Literacy
Lesson to teach students with visual impairments to use a graphic organizer
bananagrams and appletters

Adapting Word Games for Students with Visual Impairments

By Liz Eagan
This activity adapts the games of Bananagrams and Applegrams for children who are blind or visually impaired.
Worksheets with visual clutter

Limiting Visual Clutter During Math Lesson

By Paths to Literacy
This CCSS lesson idea uses addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units with students who are visually impaired.

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