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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...
Young students are being introduced to technology way before kindergarten. Students who are blind and low vision often access teacher-created books and...
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...
This fun digital game encourages students to practice their braille skills and reading accuracy. Using the ObjectiveEd web-dashboard, the TVI creates her own...
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 pandemic changed traditional educational services for toddlers with visual impairments, but one dedicated mom and innovative preschool TVI created their...
Emerging readers need exposure to letters and phonics early - including emerging readers with Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). This lowercase alphabet book...
Inclusion is what we all strive for. I always think back to sitting with a student when I worked with a young child in a gen ed classroom years ago. The class...
Task
Put a graphic on cover of a book for elementary reader from an image found online.
Why
Why take the extra time: Having an image on the book creates an...
These worksheets were created with images I created with the Procreate app (See Procreate App: Creating Customized Materials post) and put into a worksheet...
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...
The National Homework Hotline for Blind and Visually Impaired students (NHH-BVI) was created in response to the school closures due to COVID. (See Homework...
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...
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...
While looking for public fall-themed educational activities, I came across Kids Listen, podcasts for kids. Kids Listen is unique in that all the content is...
Emerging readers should be flooded with interesting books and these books should be available in various formats! Preschoolers love to do the same activity...
During the Perkins Non-Visual Digital Map workshop, orientation and mobility specialists learned how to create, use and apply non-visual digital map skills....
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...
A combination of paper braille and technology? How cool is that! Braille Sheets literacy tool that combines paper braille in tandem with with a fun app! In...
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...
Remote instruction activities can be challenging for young students to sit through. We know that early elementary students have trouble sitting still in class...
This time of remote instruction has been difficult for our students, families, and teachers. I am trying desperately to meet the needs of my students the best...
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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...
It seems that many teachers and educational administrators’ daily lives now consist of a substantial amount of time researching and testing technological...
Thanks to a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility program, ObjectiveEd has developed Braille AI Tutor – an innovative system to enable students to...
During COVID-19 school closures, Amazon has made their books and audio stories for children and students of all ages FREE - no subscription! Books can be...
Update: 4/8/20 Word Melodies version 1.0.1 is now available in Google Play as well as in the App Store. This new release fixed the bugs mentioned below.
I am...
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...
To help students with visual impairments during this crisis, ObjectiveEd is providing free access to their digital curriculum to schools and teachers to use...
It is often believed that students who are visually impaired have heightened senses to help compensate for the vision loss. Teachers of the Visually Impaired (...
All students need to learn to use commas and have opportunities to practice using commas. Quite often braille students who are pulled out for language arts,...
Book Creator is a simple tool that educators, family members, and students frequently use to create fun digital books. Book Creator's latest update included...
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 ...
"Yikes - it is almost winter break and what simple gift can I give to my students with visual impairments?!" This question keeps popping up and as teachers of...
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...
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