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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...
Reading Adventure Time is a teacher centric, student friendly app that includes activities and assessment to help students build reading skills. This app has...
Crisp, cool weather means colorful leaves, hay rides, and pumpkins! Classrooms are decorated with spider webs, pumpkins and corn stalks. These fall themes can...
This series will focus on the various features of the Orbit. This first installment we will introduce the unit and look at the menu structure. In the second...
Preschool and kindergarten students have many opportunities to count items. Counting activities start with manipulatives and move to counting worksheets. In...
Students are becoming tech savvy at early ages - including students who are emerging braille readers. These young students, with their small fingers and hands...
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...
Reading Adventure Time is FINALLY in the Apple app store. Hooray! Reading Adventure Time - a teacher centric, student friendly app that includes activities...
See 'n Say is an app based on the classic Fisher Price spinning game, See 'n Say. The app has 12 animals; each animal has a corresponding sound and mini-videos...
Review of Colorscape App for Digital Color Activities
Many TVIs have students who struggle with drawing and coloring activities due to difficulties with visual...
Fisher Price has created three free read and sing along nursery rhyme apps - perfect for babies, toddlers and preschoolers who are ready to interact with an...
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...
The Braille Me is a new smart braille display by Innovision Tech. This refreshable braille display is a 6-dot, 20-cell display with a Perkins style keyboard...
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...
Many libraries have started providing eBooks for cardholders- read more about digital library resources here. While many eBook titles available are targeted at...
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...
Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled its latest research project, Project Zanzibar. Project Zanzibar blends digital and physical worlds by sensing touch, gestures and...
Did you know that Feelif is an excellent tool for communication between a blind or visually impaired person and someone who sees?
And did you know that with...
The Basics
In the past I have completed several blogs about the Book Creator app. However, about six months ago the developers created a web based version...
The world is filled with written word. I discovered this awesome tool to help my students bring words to voice with the touch of a wand. The wand is used to...
Feelif Creator is an adapted tablet (currently a Samsung Galazy Tablet) with special accessible apps that combine haptics (vibrations), sounds, an embossed...
Taptilo is a wireless stand-alone electronic braille device that teaches braille reading and writing. Taptilo syncs with an app on your smart phone, enabling...
Read aloud stories (video books) and QR codes is a popular way to turn students on to the joy of books. These stories are also a great opportunities to support...
Dedicated to beagle butt, who attended over 50 therapy dog reading programs and helped dozens of children be comfortable around dogs.
This week, a news story...
Electronic alphabet toys have been around for decades for students with vision. LeapFrog Fridge Phonics is a sing along magnetic letter set that introduces...
Just like their peers, young students with visual impairments and blindness are being introduced to technology at a very early age. Exposure to books -...
Students love everything about technology - and they can quickly become tech-obsessed. Students (and adults!) can't resist one more scroll down, one more video...
QR Codes are exciting new teaching tools that can be used to make educational materials accessible! Teaching Superkids has created bundles of QR Codes with...
Students who are blind with additional disabilities may struggle to read, write and answer questions independently. However, mainstream technology such as an...
Storyline Online streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading award winning children's books. These riveting video books are free! Teacher guides/...
Introduction
Whether you are a blind user searching for the refreshable braille device that best meets your needs, a parent looking for a device for your...
Feelif is a combination of a standard tablet, a custom tactile grid, and multi-media educational apps or apps for playing games. Feelif is a social innovation...
Benetech's Bookshare is a free accessible online library for students with print disabilities. Bookshare is used in over 25,000 schools and school districts...
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...
Your student’s classroom teacher is handing out a worksheet, and the print is too small for your student to read. This is a scenario many TSVIs have...
The Visual Brailler iPad app from APH is a handy app marketed as a "simple braille editor." It is meant primarily to provide visual users with a way to...
Blitab is an Android tablet combined with a smart Braille surface. As an Android tablet, it has Wi-fi, Bluetooth and can run Android Apps. The upper portion...
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