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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?...
Auditory Awareness is defined as a person's ability to perceive and make sense of what is going on around them through sound. Students who are visually...
I took over a dozen virtual classes in high school, and about half of the classes I’ve taken in college have been virtual classes as well. As a result I’ve...
Updated August 2020
Using IPEVO for Remote Instruction
With many students starting the fall of 2020 with remote instruction, there is a critical need for...
Yes, we all know that COVID-19 flipped our world upside down; we are just learning more about the functional impact of the pandemic on students with visual...
During the period of school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I created online assignments for my vision and O&M students to complete on their own. I...
HOW TO CREATE AN ACCESSIBLE FORMULA SHEET
In several of my math, statistics, and data science classes, the professor will provide a formula sheet for quizzes...
Perkins eLearning offers a variety of free webinars, including this recent webinar on the Expanded Core Curriculum with Robbin Clark. During this webinar,...
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...
Since our state has moved to remote learning while all public schools are closed for a minimum of three weeks because of the Coronavirus, students have had to...
As a vision teacher/Orientation & Mobility Specialist working for a private non-profit agency, I have had the opportunity to work with several virtual...
Creating and using digital graphs is a challenge for many students with visual impairments. Traditionally, students have received graphs in a tactile format;...
The Perkins eLearning to Go podcasts cover a wide-range of topics related to working with students who are visually impaired. The current series, College...
APH continues to develop more apps to facilitate math and science study, but first APH wants to know what you need! If you have a suggestion or an idea, please...
When students with visual impairments attend school, their needs are different from the general population in several areas. As students transition into...
“I seriously hope I didn't forget anything,” we find ourselves thinking as we walk away from an evaluation session. There are so many areas that we evaluate...
This semester, I discovered that I need some extra help with some of my data science coursework involving physics and statistics, so I went looking for online...
The GoWorksheet Maker iPad App is created by Attainment Company, a company dedicated to serving people with disabilities. This app enables educators to convert...
3D printing is a natural way to develop tactile models. We’ve taught a lot of people how to use 3D printers, and we have developed several books of 3D...
This is the second post in the screen reader for low vision series. The first post, Screen Reader for Low Vision Students? Includes common indicators that a...
CAI and Self-Determination
As all teachers realize through experience, one of the components of the Expanded Core Curriculum, self-determination, is crucial in...
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...
Students who have functional vision should certainly use their vision and - when appropriate - low vision tools. For educational tasks, some students with low...
For as long as I can remember, I have had double vision that causes me to see two of everything. The way I see double has fluctuated over time- sometimes I see...
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...
Sightlings - students with vision - are able to glance at a chart and instantly identify the trend and general information without exploring each data point....
BrailleSense Polaris is a braille notetaker with a 32 cell refreshable braille display, Perkin'sstyle keyboard with a backspace and enter key, and a small LCD...
The year is 2029 and global warming disaster scenarios have become real - temperatures have increased drastically, glaciers have melted and sea levels have...
Part of the SAS Accessibility Team recently taught this activity with students in the SAVVY Transition Program in North Carolina. This post is follows the...
Vital is a combination of an accessible app that enables students with visual impairments to actively interact with digital images and a website where...
Vital is a tool that enables students with visual impairments to actively interact with digital images through auditory, haptic and text-to-speech. As 21st...
Academic students carry a variety of courses each semester and the student's TVI supports each and every subject. The daily focus is on understanding and...
Educational content is strategicially organized and formatted into sections. This helps readers to quickly find specific things and to mentally organize the...
NOTE: Please see these related articles on touch typing skills and resources:
Starting from Scratch: Where Do I Start When Teaching My Visually Impaired...
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...
Many of my professors in college have gone paperless, and assign homework, quizzes, and tests online using softwares like Blackboard and MyMathLab. I prefer to...
Objective
The objective of this activity is to teach your student how to create a specific type of line chart called a time series chart. The ability to...
The Big Bang Patterns app by HelpKidzLearn is a simple cause and effect app designed to encourage students to visually attend and follow slow moving designs...
As many of you know, I have been communicating our growing concerns over the past few years to my national contacts regarding the increasing amount of...
What O&M skills do high school students with visual impairments or blindness need to know in order to be successful in college or in job situation? Meg...
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