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How does your student/school/district's tech skills compare to others across the country?
Kodu, a visual programming tool used to teach basic coding with the use of blocks and pictures.
How and why I use accessible voting machines in local, state, and federal elections with visual impairment/low vision
How to make accessible copies of educational posters for students with low vision, blindness, or other print disabilities.
How to develop foundational charting and graphic skills.
This webinar will provide a brief introduction to Active Learning
Introducing dictation to an emerging reader and writer.
Blended Workshop on CVI: causes, assessment and strategies
Dates: March 6, 7, and April 3, 4, 2020
Here is an accessible astronomy activity that demonstrates how CCD Cameras capture the light of images of objects in space.
Comma activity to practice grammar skills and tech skills (navigating a table and navigating to add commas).
How (and why) do you provide feedback when field testing a Beta version of an iOS app?
This blog provides guidance for TVIs who will have a student in elementary science.
This blog provides practical steps to prepare for a student with Visual Impairment entering a middle school life science class.
This blog includes practical advice including adapted materials necessary for the TVI working with a student in middle school science.
This is a description of how to adapt the APH Periodic Table in order to indicate tactually the major element groups.
What tactile math skills should be taught before transitioning to math activities in a digital format?
Here is a list of A-Z terms that cover common assistive technology terms used for low vision tools.
This blog provides the TVI with practical advice as to equipment, models, and tools to prepare for a student who will be in a High School Biology class.
Providing magnification in science (particularly of specimens) proves invaluable for low vision students.
Tips to adapt animal dissection for students who are visually impaired.
Different techniques and resources to make easy raised-line drawings for students who are blind and visually impaired.
Tips for using a microscope with students who are blind or visually impaired.
Escape room activities are a fun way to develop team-building and other skills. This post describes an O&M-themed escape room activity.
Here is a sneak peak at two future refreshable braille displays that will be available through APH!
Practice braille contractions while reading about Noelle the cat!
This post describes the use of "escape room" activities to develop team-building and other skills in a fun context.
An overview of steps to take to prepare for working in a high school class with a chemistry student who is blind or visually impaired
Ways for students to customize their college Blackboard website so it's easier to see and actually helps with learning and studying.
Phonetic Announcement is both a useful feature and an annoying one
A curriculum for a basic middle to high school computer course
Basic Windows keyboard shortcuts that have been most helpful for quickly and efficiently teaching BVI k-12 students to navigate and use Windows
This webinar will provide a brief introduction to Active Learning
What math-related tech skills should we be teaching now?
Sol shares his experiences of living with tunnel vision in his interesting and funny video.
This course will provide content related to students who have cortical visual impairment (CVI) and who are considered to be in Phase III CVI.
Create a tactile telescope model that students with visual impairments can feel and explore!
TVIs, we need YOUR feedback about math skills/activities for K-3rd students.
The Novel Effect app adds sound effects to APH's tactile book!
From Hospital to Home: Using Early Visual Functioning to Support Families
Why every Android user with low vision needs the Google Lens app, and how I use it several times a day.
Use the hundreds chart to teach students to find the missing number.