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Young students are being introduced to technology way before kindergarten. Students who are blind and low vision often access teacher-created books and...
Alphabet books are among a child's first exposures to read aloud books and are important first steps to reading. Students with visual impairments should also...
Emerging readers should have access to fun digital books - just like their peers! The books can be read aloud to the student, the student can listen to the...
Farm vehicles are essential to keep a farm moving (pun intended). They sound, feel, look and ride differently from each other. Let’s explore a variety of farm...
Kids and adults love to learn and experience life on the farm. This book is about 12 farming terms used on the farm or within a farm building. I learned the...
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Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
As the school year comes to an end, I wanted to share the last two digital books I created for my student with CVI who is working on scanning and visual...
Who knew that these CVI-friendly videos were so simple to make?!? All you need is a little imagination, PowerPoint and two free web applications. These web...
Read all about Crosby, a seven month old Golden Retriever in training with the Wildcat Service Dog Program in Lexington, Kentucky. After a year of training in...
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...
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...
This month, my student and I created a book about what she is a thankful for using the Book Creator app on an iPad. My student dictated the sentences for the...
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...
Here is a video demonstrating how to read digital books created using the Book Creator app on the iPad with an Orbit Reader 20 refreshable braille display (RBD...
In the past two months, I have made 15-leveled books from the Reading Street program digitally accessible for my dual media student. Each book was made...
Paths to Technology strongly supports emerging literacy skills for students with visual impairments. These teacher-created iBooks and PDFs are available for...
This accessible digital book was created using iBooks Author. (Step-by-step directions on how to use iBooks Author here.) iBooks Author is currently the only...
Before winter break, I made 8 digital books for my students. Two of the books were Christmas gifts. I adapted and created 6 leveled reading books from the...
Last week, I adapted the book We Look written by Bill Dinardo and Illustrated by Signe Nordin into a digital book for my kindergarten student. She enjoys...
Beginning print and braille readers benefit from reading books with predictable text or repetitive text. A book with predictable text contains repetitive...
I have been enjoying teaching a kindergartener braille this school year. As a TVI, I closely collaborate with the special education teacher and classroom...
This iBook delves into the color PURPLE! Using bright colored images and sounds, the book describes Purple as "Royalty and Class" and uses different subjects...
This iBook delves into the color GREEN! Using bright colored images and sounds, the book describes Green as the color of "Nature and Jealously" and uses...
The challenge put forth to me was to create a mobility lesson while using a high tech app. Imagine my student, a 2 year old child who is totally blind trailing...
My Desk is an iBook about what the writer does at their desk including their homework and playing with toys. Each page contains high contrast images and audio...
This iBook is about animals and where they live (i.e. home, backyard, farm, etc.). Each page shows a different animal or location and plays sounds that...
Just in time for summer! Are you planning a beach trip? Here is a great beach experience book for young readers. The book talks about many of the sights and...
Students who are blind with additional disabilities may struggle to read, write and answer questions independently. However, mainstream technology such as an...
Cody, a high school student with multiple disabilities due to a traumatic brain injury (TBI), is learning to visually identify and name fast food signs in his...
This iBook is about going to the beach! Using high contrast images and sounds, the writer talks about playing in the sand, laughing with friends, and throwing...
This iBook delves into the color BLUE! Using bright colored images and sounds, the book describes blue as the color for "Calm and Sadness" and uses different...
This iBook delves into the color YELLOW! Using bright colored images and sounds, the book describes Yellow as "Bright and Happy" and uses different identifiers...
This simple iBook is about after school activities. Each page has a clear image of an item from an activity the student does after school along with sounds...
Recently I wanted to begin creating my own iBooks for some of my students with multiple disabilities who also had good use of their functional vision.
I...
In this iBook, the writer describes events that happen on their birthday. For each page, there is an image and text describing what they do on their birthday...
In this iBook, the characters from the famous Disney book "Cinderella" are identified with their images and sounds that go along with the image. Readers are...
In this iBook, each page has a letter of the alphabet with a corresponding object starting with that letter and a sound clip associated with the picture. For...
Bookshare and EPUB: a great combo!
Why EPUB?
Getting EPUB through Bookshare opens up new options. We know it is not one size fits all when it comes to...
Book Creator is a simple way to create e-books, right on your tablet! Add text, pictures, video and music, and even record your own voice. Choose a pen tool...
Cody, a high school student with traumatic brain injury (TBI), uses an iBook to retell his Sheetz Gas Station O&M lesson. One of Cody's IEP goals is to be...
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