Appsolutely Engaging and Educational - Part 2: Using iPad Apps with Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

This tutorial offers strategies, tips and techniques for using an iPad with students who are visually impaired and may have additional disabilities. Participants will earn 1.5 Professional Development Points, ACVREP, CTLE, or Continuing Education credits by completing an online quiz.

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By registering for Professional Development Points, 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. ACVREP has approved this course for Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialists for People with Visual Impairments (CATIS)

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Learning Goals and Objectives

Participants will:

  • Gain information about a variety of apps that may be appropriate for children with visual impairments and additional disabilities.
  • Learn how to make better decisions about which apps to purchase for your students or children.
  • Learn to think about apps. belonging to one of a half-dozen categories, instead of a giant ocean of a half-million apps.
  • Categories include: cause & effect; read-to-me books; music; communication; accessibility, and specialty apps for low vision and blind users.
  • Learn to think of the motor coordination needed to access apps. (finger touch, touch-and-hold, finger swipe, speaking, etc.)

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

Total Viewing Time: 60 minutes

Appsolutely Engaging and Educational – Part 2: Using iPad Apps with Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

By: Eric Jerman

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  • Upon successful completion of the test, you will earn 1.5 Professional Development Points, 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:

Eric Jerman is an Orientation and Mobility Specialist, who has a boy with cortical visual impairment (CVI). While spending two years as a stay-at-home dad with his son, Jake, Eric explored the use of the iPad as a tool to assist his son with communication, education, and entertainment.

Eric has presented on the topic of iPad Apps at parent support groups; an annual workshop of educators and parents; Children's Hospital, Boston; A.E.R.'s regional technology conference; and has been training low vision teachers on the use of iPad Apps at Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown. Eric also writes iPad app reviews for Perkins WonderBaby.org.

 

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