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Create a Father's Day tradition! Each year, your child can create a Father's Day book or slide presentation to give to his/her dad. This is a great activity...
Summer evenings are full of nature sounds! Can you identify the kind of frog by its sound? Each page of this fun emerging reader book has one clear frog image...
There is a special bond between little girls and horses: being astride a large gentle animal, swaying rhythmically from side to side, hearing the clomp-clomp...
The Mantis Q40 is a unique 40-cell braille display that has a QWERTY keyboard for input and a refreshable braille display for output. There is a 6-key entry...
"Spring is in the Air" and "April showers bring May flowers" are phrases that we associate with spring and new beginnings. May is the month for chirping baby...
My family has many road trip traditions such as "I spy with my little eyes" or "I hear with my little ears", trying to get the trucker to honk his horn,...
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Blast Off! Astronaut CosmoBally has discovered Sonoplanet, a planet full of sounds to be explored! This fully accessible free app...
Update April 2020:
TypeAbility 4.4.1 supports JAWS 13 through JAWS 2022, and Fusion 2018 through 2022!
TypeAbility is a typing and computer program for...
Available with Quota Funds, Talking Typer is a game designed to teach keyboarding skills to students who are blind or low vision. Talking Typer for iOS is a...
I am always on the look-out for fun ways to teach/practice braille skills. For print students, there are literally hundreds of educational apps that encourage...
An idiom is a word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning. Do you know what these idioms mean?
He's as cool as a cucumber...
"Back-in-the-day" comments added to a document meant the teacher's red pen marks on your paper, used to indicate errors or areas that need to be changed. The...
As of 2021, approximately 150 million users use Google Classroom. How does a student who uses a screen reader use Google Docs on an iPad? Macy, with Challenge...
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...
When a student is editing (or writing!) a document, it is important that the student have the same editing tools available as his/her sighted peers. Both...
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...
Effective note taking helps students to remember information and aids in his/her understanding of that information. Once created, notes act as a record of the...
Have you ever wondered why the bald eagle was chosen as the national emblem of the United States of America? What makes the bald eagle so special?
Bald Eagle...
Educators are always searching for ways to make lessons fresh and exciting. Embedding seasonal activities provides creative learning opportunities while...
Social media blows up at the beginning of each school year as thousands of "first day" of school pictures are uploaded and shared. First day activities often...
In the first Monster: Note Taking Skills post, we learned to make simple lists with a title/heading. Students listened to short descriptions of Lulu the...
Young students are embedding technology skills into daily classroom activities. Use these pumpkin-themed activities to reinforce concepts, reading/writing...
Note taking is an important digital skill for students to learn. Young students, including students who are blind or visually impaired, should be given age-...
Transition skills start EARLY! This valuable resource begins at age 4 and is designed specifically for parents of students who are blind or low vision. Created...
In order for your student to be a "Tech Power User", he/she must fully understand the different parts of the screen and how to navigate in and around these...
Back to school is the perfect time to introduce new activities. Journaling is a daily activity that has tremendous educational benefits. We often think about...
Classrooms often use inline suggestions when participating in group assignments that require sharing a Google Document. In addition, teachers frequently make...
HOW I OUTLINE RESEARCH PAPERS WITH ONENOTE
Over the years, I have had several awesome teachers and professors who have helped me learn how to write essays...
Teacher's Pet Online is a free, accessible tool to create and share practice materials, quizzes and tests. The tool works with your platform's screen reader...
Added in iOS 14, "On-Device Dictation" enables the user to dictate "on the device" meaning that the processing of voice dictation is no longer on the cloud but...
Macy, with Challenge Solutions, shares her tips and tricks on how she creates Keynote presentations on her iPad with VoiceOver. Challenge Solutions is a group...
Are you teaching dictionary skills to your students? In third grade, the Common Core dictates that students learn to use glossaries or beginning dictionaries,...
How to Run Effective Web Searches
Over the years, I have had several awesome teachers and professors who have helped me learn how to write essays and...
Squigz by Fat BrainToys are a fun multi-sensory toy that can help support many developmental skills. As a TVI, part of the job is to be creative in our...
Questions about Compass? Join us for a virtual info session on February 10.
We're now accepting applications for the 2021-22 session of Compass, our nine-month...
Taking Online English Classes with Low Vision
Over the last five years, I have had the opportunity to take two different online English classes and was able...
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...
Students who are completing online assignments often have to navigate to and then input text into a text field. Does your student know the screen commands...
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