Accessible Books and Literacy: Supporting and Encouraging a Love for Literacy

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This tutorial explores experience and concept books, as well as story and conversation boxes. In addition, you’ll learn how to effectively and creatively adapt classroom materials while enhancing a Braille-rich environment for your students.

Participants will earn 2.0 ACVREP, CTLE, Continuing Education credits by completing an online quiz. By registering for ACVREP, CTLE, or Continuing Education credits, you will be provided with a self-paced tutorial using video clips and other resources related to this topic, as well as an online test to assess your knowledge.

This is a web-based, self-guided professional development activity for TVIs, VRTs, O&Ms, Parents, Teachers of the Deafblind or Severely Impaired, and Rehabilitation Specialists.

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Learning Goals and Objectives

Upon completion of this tutorial, participants will be able to:

  • Define and give examples of experience books, story boxes, conversation boxes, and concept books.
  • Understand how to adapt a classroom reader and science books.
  • Recognize the importance of creating a Braille-rich environment.
  • Identify creative ways to 'get help' in creating tactile books.

Watch These Videos

The video content below will be presented within your tutorial module.

Total Viewing Time: 1 hour, 7 minutes

An example of adapted science book with bird eggs and nest.Accessible Books and Literacy: Supporting and Encouraging a Love for Literacy

by: Sandra Kenrick

 

  • Upon successful completion of the test, you will earn 2.0 ACVREP, CTLE, or Continuing Education credits (your choice). You will be able to print a signed Perkins certificate demonstrating that you earned the credits.
  • Instructions on how to enroll in the tutorial and take the online test will be emailed to you after you have successfully registered. Perkins eLearning profiles are unique to the learning platform, and separate from any other username/password you have with Perkins. If you already have a user profile for the learning platform, you will use that existing profile to access the tutorial.

 

PRESENTER SUMMARY:
Sandra Kenrick is a mother of two sons. Her oldest, age 6, is deaf-blind. His first language is American Sign Language. Her youngest, age 3, has typical vision and hearing. His first language is English. Theirs is a "bilingual household" (where both ASL and English are used).

Sandra has taught at both the elementary and high school level in general education classrooms, and is a frequent blogger and contributor to the Perkins School for the Blind's "Paths to Literacy" website at www.pathstoliteracy.org/users/liamsmom, dedicated to supporting a love for literacy for children who are blind or visually impaired. In addition, she has been a part of creating a module for Open Hands, Open Access: Deaf-Blind Intervener Learning Modules.

Sandra loves learning everything she can about all things 'Deaf-Blind', 'Blind', and 'Deaf' to help support and advocate for Liam.

 

Have a question? Contact Perkins.eLearning@perkins.org

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