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During recent discussions about what accessible math tools students are using, Desmos is always one of the first tools mentioned. Desmos, a graphing calculator...
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...
This digital book was written for Addy because she loves the Dr. Seuss book The Grinch. Last year, I hand brailled a copy of The Grinch for her and added...
Teachers of students with visual impairments or blindness are responsible for teaching so many things. How do you prioritize what to teach when?
It used to be...
TVIs - our mission is to help our students learn math and to love learning math! What mainstream, approved digital math tools are you teaching your students?...
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...
A combination of paper braille and technology? How cool is that! Braille Sheets literacy tool that combines paper braille in tandem with with a fun app! In...
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Students in today's classrooms are using digital educational materials - especially now with remote instruction, online courses and virtual...
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 all have been thrown into the deep end with regard to virtual/distance learning! Some of us had prepared our students and some didn’t. Some of us are tech...
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...
Students with visual impairments and blindness are successfully using technology in the classroom and it is exciting to see how technology has a positive...
My student has been learning to read high frequency words in braille and alphabetic word signs. She’s had the greatest success reading teacher created...
This month, my student and I created a book about what she is a thankful for using the Book Creator app on an iPad. My student dictated the sentences for the...
When a student becomes frustrated expressing their ideas in writing in their primary learning medium and it has negative implications on learning and their...
One of the most amazing things about screen reading solutions like Apple's VoiceOver is how effective they are at speaking out loud the contents of a device's...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
If you are a Refreshabraille 18 user, you may have, at some point or another, found that your device's braille display is all jumbled up! My students have...
This year, I created over thirty digital accessible books for one of my students using the Book Creator App. Attached is the final book I created using...
Here is a video demonstrating how to read digital books created using the Book Creator app on the iPad with an Orbit Reader 20 refreshable braille display (RBD...
In the past two months, I have made 15-leveled books from the Reading Street program digitally accessible for my dual media student. Each book was made...
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...
Before winter break, I made 8 digital books for my students. Two of the books were Christmas gifts. I adapted and created 6 leveled reading books from the...
I have been enjoying teaching a kindergartener braille this school year. As a TVI, I closely collaborate with the special education teacher and classroom...
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....
It is close to the end of the school year, which means test taking time. Many students who are visually impaired or blind were given online, adaptive...