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Updated April 2022
There are several different types of commercial Easter Eggs that enable students with visual impairments to join in the fun.
Key Finder...
For those tech savvy low vision folks who have been handily using their iPhone cameras to capture images of restaurant menus and then using zoom to enlarge it...
In a previous post, Concept Development: Own Your Real Estate, we discussed how "fearless independent travelers" begin by being completely confident traveling...
Students are back in school and coding activities are in full swing. Why are kids so excited about coding? Part of the appeal is the challenge and reward of...
White Cane Day (now recognized worldwide) is October 15th. Established in 1964, White Cane Day also known as White Cane Safety Day, was used to raise awareness...
Updated August 4th with 40+ Metro Maps in the Paths to Technology Map Library!
A huge thank you to the SAS 2021 Summer Interns who have created 40+ metro...
Tap, tap, tap - your footsteps are echoing as you walk quickly through the ancient temple searching for treasure. Warning! Carefully follow the genie's...
National Chip and Dip Day is next Tuesday! (March 23rd)
I’m not gonna lie, it’s one of my favorite holidays. And it makes for some fun lessons with students. I...
Your public or private school student has the opportunity to participate in summer school or an event at your school for the blind. (It is anticipated that...
Apple Pay (and Google Pay for Android users) is a mobile contact payment system and digital wallet service that enables users to pay for products and services...
On October 15, 1964, White Cane Day became a national observation in the United States to celebrate the achievements of people who are blind or visually...
During the Perkins Non-Visual Digital Map workshop, orientation and mobility specialists learned how to create, use and apply non-visual digital map skills....
Orientation and Mobility lessons for elementary students is a combination of concepts and safe travel skills. How can students continue to progress with...
The ECC or Expanded Core Curriculum consists of the knowledge and skills needed by a student with a visual disability to access core content areas. Everyone...
Accessible, interactive digital maps? As an O&M with 30+ years experience, I regularly use tactile maps to help my students learn about O&M concepts...
In Phase 2 (re-opening with COVID-19), Elon University has started individual college campus outdoor tours and has plans to allow orientation weeks over the...
Victor is a high school senior who will be attending Elon University for a week this summer for the Odyssey Scholars program and will start full time in the...
How are YOU handling the high O&M needs for your soon-to-graduate high school student who is transitioning to college? Ideally, this student would have...
The initial post, Six Cool Games that can be Played on Zoom, was a huge success! More than 2,000 educators/families read this post the first week it was...
We’ve just released Wayfinder – the latest in our series of Orientation and Mobility digital curriculum for students with vision impairments.
Wayfinder is...
Educators are being asked to prepare lesson plans for virtual instruction due to the Coronavirus threat. Yesterday, entire states have been proactive and have...
In my O&M lessons, as my students can attest, I usually try to cram in as many different skills as I can in order to maximize our time together. This...
The original Sphero City activity by SpheroEDU, encourages students to either design an original Sphero City or to design a city from history. As an O&M, I...
Teaching coding concepts to students who are visually impaired is now on our radar! Mainstream classrooms are embedding coding concepts and logical thinking...
As Orientation and Mobility Specialists, our caseloads include academic students, students with severe and profound multiple disabilities and students who fall...
This activity has been modified for students with visual impairments with permission from the original author, Deidre Smith (JDaniel4's Mom) See her original...
Clew is an iOS app that records a user's path and then guides the user back to his starting point. Clew was created to help travelers who are visually impaired...
Over the weekend, an image went viral of a woman holding a blindness cane and using a phone at the same time. Many people assumed that the woman was faking her...
As technology continues to evolve, future college students now have an additional way to search for higher education by touring colleges with virtual reality....
About the App
You Doodle comes as both a paid app for the full version, or can be downloaded for free. While the free version does not have as many features...
I work with a second grade student with albinism who moved to a new classroom in a large combined elementary/ middle school building. The student needed to...
My student is a 16-year-old high schooler who wants to walk to his friend’s house in a city environment. We have been working on intersections and street...
While I was waiting for my plane to take off a few days ago, I got a message from my campus alert system saying that the power was out, so classes may be...
My friend and I were talking the other day and they asked me how I had learned to navigate the hallways of my school before I started using a blindness cane-...
We all know Google Maps are a very useful tool when it comes to previewing locations and getting directions, but did you know that you can create a digital...
I initially created a My Long Cane Book with a student who was being introduced to the long cane. The idea came after I had combed the internet for a children’...
Objective
The student will locate and read posted information using the iPhone camera or magnifier by spotting, fixating, and then tracing environmental...
When my eye doctor first recommended that I get tinted glasses in eighth grade, I was worried people might tease me for looking like I wear sunglasses all the...
I started using the iPhone Reminders app during city bus lessons when I taught a high schooler who has low vision and significant social anxiety. The idea of...
Editor's Note: The SAS Gloss app is no longer available; however, this activity can be done with other annotation apps.
My name is Joseph Kolb, a Certified...
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