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Image of city skyline and text, "Creating Accessible Metro Maps"

Creating Non-Visual Digital Maps of Metropolitan Areas

Best practices when creating metro maps!
Woman going through airport metal detector with guide dog in sit-stay; text, "Airport O&M Activities"

Learning about Airport/Airport Travel: O&M Activities

Ways you can prepare your O&M student for flying.
Moore Square Map with sonified street highlighted and text, "Map Explore: Digital Maps with Sonified Streets!"

Map Explore: Sneak Peak at a New O&M Game

Follow digital streets and explore customized tags in this fully accessible map app!
Screenshot of Temple Explorer with character standing at a crossroad inside the temple. Text, "Temple Explorer: O&M Game"

Temple Explorer: A New Directionality O&M Game!

A progressive directionality game designed for older O&M students!
cartoon image of a finger touching a sonified, highlighted street in the Map Explore app and text, "Map Explore: New O&M Game"

Map Explore: New O&M Game!

Practice O&M skills and mental mapping skills through available and customized touch-explore maps!
Image of Google map of Illinois School for Visually Impaired and text, "Create A Map: Video Tutorial"

Creating a Non-Visual Digital Map: Video Tutorial

Step-by-step instructions and best practices when creating a non-visual digital map for students who are blind or low vision.
Text: "Creating Customized Campus Maps" with background of NCSU Main Campus map.

Creating Customized Non-Visual Digital College Campus Maps

Strategies for creating the perfect customized university maps for students who are blind or low vision.
Silhouette of dog in a harness with text, "Online Guide Dog Workshops"

Guide Dog Online Workshops for Students: Part 2

Recorded Guide Dog workshop for students interested in guide dogs!
Photo of four different bags of chips and dips and text, "National Chip and Dip Day!"

National Chip and Dip Day: O&M Activity

Celebrate National Chip and Dip Day with this fun O&M activity!
Photo of Governor Morehead School sign, established in 1869. Text, "Build a mental map of YOUR school for the blind!"

Build a Mental Map of Campus

Before attending a summer session or event at the school for the blind, use a digital non-visual map to build a mental map of campus!
Cartoon images of an O&M and student pointing in various directions. "Sara & Maya: Reinforcement Learning; cardinal directions."

ObjectiveEd: Cardinal Directions

Learn how ObjectiveEd games can reinforce and track student progress with O&M skills.
Apple Pay logo with text, "Shopping Made Easy!"

Apple Pay

How to make shopping easier and safer!
Screenshot of iPhone phone app displaying a numpad and text, "Numpad Layout"

Learning Numeric Keypad Layout: Activities

Touch typing should include the numeric keypad; does your student know and use the ten-key?
Satellite view of Pittsboro Historic Courthouse circle with text, "Map Lessons: Getting Started"

Pittsboro Map Lessons: Getting Started

New to non-visual digital maps? Use this simplified map to get started!
Cartoon drawing of buildings along a street with Points A & B and route arrow, with text, "Wayfinding App"

ObjectiveEd: Wayfinding App

Try this motivating app to teach orientation and mental mapping skills!
Image of 3 year old Victor with procane by large red cement Target ball and Victor college freshman sitting on campus.

Concept Development: Putting ORIENTATION back into O&M

Does your student have a full toolbox of ORIENTATION skills?
Photos of two students walking in a school hallway: 1 using a long cane & 1 using an AMD. "White Cane Day 2020"

White Cane Day 2020: Pete the Cat Video

Students celebrating White Cane Day, Pete the Cat style!
Kindergarten student walking on a sidewalk using a white cane and text, "White Cane Day!"

White Cane Day!

October 15 is White Cane Day - here is a poem that celebrates white canes!
Smiling 4 year old with precane bumped up to Red Cement Ball at Target. Text, "Own your Real Estate!"

Concept Development: Own Your Real Estate

Part 2 in an O&M concept development series.
Cartoon drawing of two homes, street, sidewalk and parked bicycle.

Whittier Falls Housing Development Map and "Circle" Concepts

Understanding the road name "circle" may actually represent various other shapes, such as a "U".

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