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Tactile images and adapting images to make them accessible in raised line form can be difficult hurtles, not to mention the time consumption they entail....
The Access and Engagement Survey examined the impact of COVID-19 on the education of students birth-21 with visual impairments, their families, and...
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...
As we all get ready to go back to school, especially with either the reality or potentiality of teaching virtually from a distance, many of us are having to...
Finding Solutions
Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
It's the Law!
As school is ending all across the country, this is a good time to take stock of what we accomplished this school year and what we want to...
For remote instruction, my student with multiple disabilities and CVI receives materials via Google Classroom. Service providers post short videos of fine...
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Ballyland Keyboarding for desktop and laptop computers is a unique software designed to enable...
As teachers of the visually impaired, we are always looking for efficient and inexpensive ways to adapt materials for our students with CVI. This is...
Vision providers all across the country are getting creative about providing remote instruction to students with visual impairments. One barrier some providers...
Background
Currently there are many students all across the United States with CVI recieving remote video instruction from classroom teachers and specialists...
Join the CyberSquad on a mission to repair the Super Railway after pieces of its track were stolen by the Villain Hacker. This game follows the CyberChase PBS...
Students are creating videos to use in multimedia presentations in early elementary school. While tech standards vary across the country, by 4th or 5th grade,...
A common struggle for students with limited motor skills (gross and/ or fine) is meeting the expectation of using a laptop in a 1:1 Chromebook school. There...
When a student becomes frustrated expressing their ideas in writing in their primary learning medium and it has negative implications on learning and their...
For the last few days, I haven't left my dorm very much. But during that time, I have been able to do the following:
Read a virtual library book on George...
The GoWorksheet Maker iPad App is created by Attainment Company, a company dedicated to serving people with disabilities. This app enables educators to convert...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
Accessing the web is a critical component in today's classroom. WebAIM's goal is to help make the web more accessible to individuals with disabilities by...
Bookshare, a huge resource for students who are visually impaired, is an accessible FREE online library for students with print disabilities. Recently,...
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) has created a free 9 module curriculum that includes videos, downloadable templates and tools....
I’ve got a neat new tip to share with y’all today, and it’s all because my student was confident enough to speak up and correct me after I made an incorrect...
I am a big of fan of downloading quick and easy AAC apps to use with my students with visual impairments who are multi-modal communicators with quite a bit of...
I have recently been exploring the Cough Drop AAC app, available on Android and iOS, for several of my students who are both verbal with limited language...
When I visited Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) to talk about assistive technology, I admit that I wasn't sure what to expect from a...
In the first article in this two part series entitled Technology Assessment: Components of a Meaningful Technology Assessment, we looked at reasons to conduct...
The first step to knowing where you’re going is knowing where you are.
No, that isn’t a famous quote...just one of those fleeting thoughts that entered my...
The best advice my mom and I ever received about my disability accommodations was that we should transition to a 504 plan right before graduating from high...
K-12 classrooms are embracing technology and are working to overcome accessibility issues associated with digital and online educational materials. While there...
In recent times, I have been talking to a lot of students who have either diagnosed or suspected dysgraphia. Inspired by this, I have put together a list of...
School year 2016-2017 was a pilot year for the MAP assessments at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind. As a school, we were looking for a way to provide...
Author's note- Bookshare, a service that provides large print and Braille digital books for people with print disabilities worldwide, is currently in danger...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more than half of all jobs require some degree of technology skills. How does this impact students with...
