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I’ve always had low vision. I never knew anything different, and frankly I think a lot of the experiences I had as a young woman with low vision shaped who I...
Wordle is a free online puzzle game where players try to guess a valid five-letter word in six tries or less. Wordle can be played on a computer or mobile...
TVI Jeanette Norman has created and shared free cane and braille-related Boom Decks for students with low vision. Her latest Boom Card Deck shares three...
Just how important are emerging reader books, especially books about the student? Creating books about things the student is interested in or things the...
This series is designed to show how a tablet (in this case an iPad, but the same is true with any tablet) can be used to systematically teach critical...
Did you know that you can create customized INTERACTIVE books and games? Interactive - meaning that you can make an image or area on the screen an interactive...
Teachers of students with visual impairments or blindness are responsible for teaching so many things. How do you prioritize what to teach when?
It used to be...
The Math Melodies app is a FREE fully accessible math app created specifically for students who are blind or low vision. The app covers a wide range of math...
Teachers of the Visually Impaired are jumping for joy! Why? Math Melodies is a fully accessible math app covering a wide range of math topics ranging from...
Dimple Duo by Fat Brain Toys is a fun sensory play educational toy, that can be used increase finger strength and finger isolation. The toy has six silicone...
Teachers are buzzing about APH's new beginning braille letter app, BrailleBuzz! This is a sister app to the popular stand-alone BrailleBuzz toy. Both games...
Emerging readers should be flooded with interesting books and these books should be available in various formats! Preschoolers love to do the same activity...
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Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
Seesaw is an online platform that had been used by schools prior to COVID- 19 in New Hampshire to communicate with parents and share student work. Once schools...
For remote instruction, my student with multiple disabilities and CVI receives materials via Google Classroom. Service providers post short videos of fine...
As we all begin providing remote instruction to students with visual impairments, we may find it challenging to meet the needs of our students with CVI and...
As educators, finding good children’s books is essential to developing literacy in students. The Epic! app allows educators to provide students access to...
My student has been learning to read high frequency words in braille and alphabetic word signs. She’s had the greatest success reading teacher created...
Music and sound effects play at just the right time as you read APH's The Littlest Pumpkin tactile book, bringing the book to life! Accompanying sound effects...
As educators, it is important to make literary experiences as interactive and valuable for the students that we work with. With that in mind, the Novel Effect ...
My colleague, Adrienne Shoemaker and I completed a presentation at the NEAER Conference in New Hampshire this past November titled Tech Skills for the College...
In first grade, my student has been learning to visually read lists of sight words. In braille, she practices reading some of the same high frequency words, as...
The Active Braille is a forty-cell refreshable braille display with cursor router keys, a Perkin’s style keyboard, two triple action keys, and two spacebar...
This month, I created a pumpkin themed book for my first grade dual media learner using the Book Creator App. Since she loves cats, I wrote a simple story...
This semester, I discovered that I need some extra help with some of my data science coursework involving physics and statistics, so I went looking for online...
Update 9/4/2019
APH recently updated their APH Crossword web-browser game. There are several noteable updates, including:
Letters are larger - match the...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
Students who have functional vision should certainly use their vision and - when appropriate - low vision tools. For educational tasks, some students with low...
Podcasts are a good source of information, entertainment, and education. Perkins recently released a Podcast called eLearning to go. I mentioned it to a...
Many libraries have started providing eBooks for cardholders- read more about digital library resources here. While many eBook titles available are targeted at...