Strategies

Below are strategies for all content areas.






Photo of tactile advent calendar

Tactile Advent Calendar

By Charlotte Cushman
Tactile advent calendar uses objects
Still from video of Robbie Blaha and student

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.
Child manipulated squishy bag on lightbox

Squishy Bag - A tactile / multi-sensory approach to pre-writing and writing skills

By Charlotte Cushman
This multi-sensory tactile activity encourages children to develop handskills, including hand and finger strength, finger isolation, and squeezing.
Photo of child's hands manipulating playdoh

Finger-strength and pincer grip activities: getting ready for writing braille

By Charlotte Cushman
Ideas to help young children to develop fine motor skills and strengthen their fingers and hands in order to read braille
Cover of touch book of textures

Make Your Own Touch Book!

By Charlotte Cushman
Learn how to make a touch book to promote tactile skills with children who are blind or visually impaired, deafblind or who have multiple disabilities
THERM in black letters on a white background with a thermometer attached to it

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
Photo of picture book with sponge and rubber duck as part of story box

Beginning Story Box: Little Rabbit's Bedtime

By kimberlyd415
This storybox presents simple familiar objects to illustrate the story of Little Rabbit's Bedtime.
Page of language experience story about watering the plant

Experience Book About Planting Seeds

By kimberlyd415
This experience story about planting seeds uses pictures, text in braille and print, and other tactile materials to share the story and sequence events.
Colored stars on black background

Beginning Books for Children with CVI

By Beth Allen
Create books for children with cortical visual impairment (CVI) using simple materials with limited complexity.
quilt

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.
Image of tactile calendar

Individualized Adapted Calendars

By Charlotte Cushman
Ideas for setting up individual calendars for students with visual impairments and additional disabilities
Addition problem using tactile counting aids

Counting in Tactile Journals

By Rocky@Perkins
Create tactile books or journals to work on counting and other early learning concepts with young children who are blind or visually impaired.
Cover of tactile journal

Tactile Journals

By Rocky@Perkins
Tactile journals support writing about experiences for students who are blind, visually impaired, or deafblind, including those with multiple disabilities.

All About Me!

By Charlotte Cushman
Create an "All About Me" book using objects, textures, tactile symbols, print and braille for children with visual impairments & multiple disabities
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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 collage

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.
photo of the divided wheel and spinner arrow, with close-ups of print/braille

Wheel of Fortune Game

By RJSitten
This game gives students practice reading braille words. It could easily be adapted to an inclusive setting.
Items starting with the letter "b"

Alpha Boxes

By Gayle Flegel
Fun hands-on activity for beginning braille readers to begin to pair initial letter sounds with the braille alphabet
Image of panda bear and turtle with books

Object Symbols for Choice Making

By Gayle Flegel
In this activity, real objects are paired with object symbols to build an understanding of symbolic representation.
Photo of a veltex board with small stuffed animals and letter cards attached.

Using Objects to Reinforce Consonant Sounds

By Mary McCarthy
Activity to use objects to reinforce consonant sounds with beginning braille readers

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