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Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
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...
As each state embarks on providing remote instruction to students, many companies are providing free training through video conferencing and webinars, as well...
As educators, we often teach basic reading skills, such as identifying letters, words, building vocabulary and spelling. However, when was the last time you...
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...
For a variety of reasons, students who have functional vision are often resistant to using a screen reader. Should these students be introduced to a screen...
NOTE: Please see other posts in this series including
So Many Braille Displays Part One (focusing on the Brailliant BI 40 and BI 80 models)
So Many Braille...
Just as there are many types of books to read, there are also many reasons to read. Reading a textbook or technical article for school/work requires full...
Educational content is strategicially organized and formatted into sections. This helps readers to quickly find specific things and to mentally organize the...
Let the student drive
It is important to let your student be the person interacting with the device during practice sessions. The ability to control when...
Use content that fascinates
The most important criterion for choosing content that your student will use to practice reading speed is the degree to which the...
Before we discuss tools, I must clarify that our goal is to increase your student’s auditory reading speed. Residual vision should not be used during this...
This series on increasing auditory reading speed is based on a master-apprentice model. In this case, successful professionals with visual impairments like me...
My personal perspective
When I was in elementary school, I was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). I hated to read because of RP. I had a great deal of...
Narrator is the native Windows 10 screen reader. With the recent release of Windows 10 (version 1809), comes improvements in Narrator and a new Narrator User...
I was introduced to Braille in elementary school when we knew I had a visual impairment that was impacting my ability to read, but we didn’t have a diagnosis....
SoftSchools.com provides free online games, worksheets and quizzes on a variety of topics, all organized by grade level.
SoftSchools Topics
Math
Math...
Tech savvy classroom teachers in the 21st Century are using Google Forms, Sheets and Flubaroo (add-on) to create, grade and tests, including weekly spelling...
The first Inference post in this series provided fun, hands-on activities including Crime Scenes, Garbage Mysteries and Shoe Pairs. (View Inference Activities...
Welcome to the second blog in our Back to School with Bookshare series. These blogs help teachers get a strong start to the school year so they can help their...
GETTING STARTED WITH ASR
Introduction
Audio-Supported Reading (ASR) is a technology-based approach for accessing and working with text presented in either...
When using a screen reader, it is quite typical that you will access websites and applications. On webpages and within apps, you will hear special coding and...
Kindle for PC (1.19.1 and above) supports NVDA (2017.1 and above), JAWS and Microsoft Narrator screen readers on Windows 7, Windows 8 or 8.1 and Windows 10 in...
I recently had the opportunity to talk with a number of wonderful Teachers of the Visually Impaired (TVIs) and Orientation and Mobility Specialists (O&Ms)...
The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has recently released BARD Express - a simplified way to browse and download NLS...
Does your student have homework reading assignments that require him/her to access an online article and your student does not have Internet at home? No...
Reading is a passion of mine. I love it! There are many resources out there for visually impaired/blind people. I use a lot of these sources. Here are just a...
