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These blog links support the AT Technology Skills Scope and Sequence Chart for K-5 students using an iPad with VoiceOver. The AT Technology Skills Scope and...
Snow globe shake up! Just like the snow globe in the story, the Snow Globe Family, your story has been through a snowstorm - and the story plot has been blown...
Tech Lessons: Basic Operations
(Diane Brauner January 2022)
These blog links support the AT Technology Skills Scope and Sequence Chart for K-5 students using...
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...
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...
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...
UPDATE! The ABC's of iOS manual is available FREE for everyone!
Are you a parent or teacher of a toddler, preschooler, or kindergarten student who is visually...
We are now offering two live webinars every day - one focused on Orientation & Mobility skills and Assistive Technology skills, and another focused on...
Thanks to a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility program, ObjectiveEd has developed Braille AI Tutor – an innovative system to enable students to...
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...
The Active Braille is a forty-cell refreshable braille display with cursor router keys, a Perkin’s style keyboard, two triple action keys, and two spacebar...
How do you start teaching digital literacy skills to young students who are learning technology? Memorizing a list of commands is B-O-R-I-N-G!
How about...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
This month I created six more digital accessible books for my kindergarten student using the Book Creator App. Attached is an ePub file of my version of the...
Editor's Note: The Smart Beetle is no longer available.
NOTE: Please see other posts in this series including
So Many Braille Displays Part One (focusing on...
Reading Adventure Time and Writing Adventure Time are FINALLY in the Apple app store. Hooray! These two apps are teacher driven, student friendly and they...
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...
Rhyming words are simply two words that end with the same sound. Emerging readers often learn to read, write and spell using Word Families - a group of words...
NOTE: Prior to reading this article, you may wish to review previous articles in this series:
Layout and Menu Structure of the Orbit Reader 20
File Structure...
This month, my third grade student created a digital book about her dog Zoey. This book served several purposes.
Addressing IEP goals to engage in writing,...
The first evening of summer, the song “Here Comes the Sun” popped into my head, as I reflected over the school year and the progress one of my student’s has...
Students who are blind with additional disabilities may struggle to read, write and answer questions independently. However, mainstream technology such as an...
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...
iOS Devices and Focus Braille Displays
Over the course of the last five years, I have had the opportunity to work with several students of different ages...
Braille. Say this to a student who is blind, you may get a groan; say this to a sighted student, and you get a more enthusiastic response. One of the most...
There are 6 chords that Layla consistently uses now that she is in first grade: R chord, P chord, O chord, G chord, H chord, and D chord.
(See previous blog...
In braille, there are 6 dot positions, where each letter corresponds to a different combination of dots. For example, the letter “A” is dot position 1, and the...
This is the third blog about Spin & Solve.
While the game itself became quite popular - it was the 2nd most popular game after Blindfold Bowling, many...
Exploring Braille with Madilyn and Ruff is a fantastic app created for emerging braille students. Pairing the iPad with a refreshable braille display enables...
After introducing a 4 year old student to the “Exploring Braille with Madilyn and Ruff” app, she was hooked. I was able to use the app as motivation for her to...
Kids who are blind need access to technology at the same time as their sighted peers. Young sighted children are getting their hands on their parents’ iPhones...
