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Preparing for Transition Using an Activity-Based Self-Determination Curriculum
This activity-based curriculum from Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired can be used to teach and promote self-determination skills with youth who
Cow Eye Dissection
Gloved hands hold a cow eyeball
Step-by-step instructions for a science lab to dissect a cow eye
Edible Eyeball
Edible eyeball with marshmallow
This simple edible model serves to support instruction on the main structures of the eye for students who are blind or visually impaired.

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This interactive activity allows students who are blind or visually impaired to practice interview skills and better understand the employment process.
Hands on a braille notetaker
Mock Interviews
Use MadLibs to build social skills with students who are blind or visually impaired.
Mad Libs logo
MadLibs Social Skills
A hands-on activity to introduce students who are blind and visually impaired to gravity and weight.
kitchen scale
Gravity and Weight
This activity is designed to help students with visual impairments learn about options for watching accessible movies and television.
a shelf with DVDs on it
Movie Night: Planning a Recreational Activity
In this activity, students learn about some of the entry-level jobs that exist in their communities and what these jobs involve.
A young man in an interview
Career Education: Interviews about Entry-Level Jobs
Students who are blind or visually impaired measure distance and time to calculate the speed at which a marble travels.
A student using a ruler
Measuring Speed
Blind and visually impaired students practice skills necessary to schedule a medical appointment in this hands-on activity.
a smartphone showing a calendar app
Making an appointment by phone for a medical service
This activity uses a trip to a business in the student’s community to learn about jobs.
A young man enters a bank.
Career Education: Job Awareness
An activity that encourages students who are blind or visually impaired to participate in their IEP goal development.
A table with chairs around and thought bubbles above it
Self-Determination: Setting IEP Goals
A hands-on activity that encourages social skill development as students who are blind or visually impaired use the phone to order a pizza.
hands holding and dialing an iPhone
Calling to Order a Pizza
Playing games can be a fun way to develop social skills for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities.
A group of students playing Farkle
Building Social Skills Through Game Night
Learning about the roles of the members of the IEP team are an important step towards self-determination, which is part of the ECC (Expanded Core Curriculum).
A teacher talking to a teenage boy
Learning about the Roles of IEP Team
This activity is designed to help students with vision impairments develop increasing practice and comfort with requesting assistance, in progressively more
A teen who is blind shakes the hand of a woman in a bank.
Learning to Ask for Help
A hands-on science activity that teaches students who are blind and visually impaired about the balance of objects.
An image of a scale holding two buckets, one has something in it, but they appear to weigh the same
Balance
This activity encourages students with special needs to become aware of and think critically about the accommodations they receive at school.
An adolescent girl uses a VisoBook
Understanding Accommodations Needed
This activity encourages individuals to learn about and describe their vision impairments and any additional disabilities, as a step toward self-determination.
A counselor sits with a student using a refreshable braille display
Talking About Disability-Related Needs

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