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Do you have a student who uses a Freedom Scientific device? Showcase your student's success by entering him/her into this contest!
K-12 students in the United...
Update: The Lesson Library is now LIVE under the Paths to Technology Resource Library. Here is the direct link to the Lesson Library. Note: The Lesson Library...
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...
FutureBot is a machine who loves asking bizarre questions to calculate your future. The thing is, he isn’t very good at it. But we admire his passion for...
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...
Get #AllInTogether for Summer Reading
Are you looking for fun and EASY ways to keep your child or students learning this summer?
Bookshare’s #AllInTogether ...
For remote instruction, my student with multiple disabilities and CVI receives materials via Google Classroom. Service providers post short videos of fine...
Special Offer Ballyland Early Keyboarding Home Access License!
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,...
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...
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 students with visual impairments attend school, their needs are different from the general population in several areas. As students transition into...
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...
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with SAS Institute, will host our annual STEM Career Showcase for Students with Disabilities on...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
Currently, each university creates their own accessible files each semester for students who are visually impaired or print disabled. While universities have...
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,...
iOS 12 focused on "under the hood" features. iOS 13, however, is ". . . easily the most power-user-focused iOS update that we have seen in the history of the...
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...
UPDATE!!!! Space Camp 2019 Registration is now open! (May 3, 2019)
Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCIVIS) is a week long camp held at...
As many of my students with visual impairments and additional disabilities approach transition, I have really taken it upon myself to find AAC apps that would...
As more of my student’s with visual impairments with multiple disabilities get older and enter into the world that requires them to use a multi-modal...
Podcasts! They are a great way to be entertained and informed. I enjoy listening to a wide variety of podcasts, but recently started exploring ones that are...
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...
In the past few days, a lot of people have been asking me about choosing a computer mouse with low vision and how to make computer mice accessible for vision...
I still remember that first picture book that I read - ok, memorized - as a preschooler. I read that book over and over again, to myself, to mom and dad, my...
Lesson 1
Materials used: iPad
Objective: Student will know how to handle the iPad.
To begin, I started out with a discussion on how we handle the iPad. We...
The new Voice Access provides hands-free access for Android, enabling users to navigate, compose and edit text, along with additional interactions, such as "...
TVI's Comments
This little artifact is written by Pasta Guy while we (his TVI) sat around and chatted about what he needs in classes, and what information he...
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