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The Equalizing Power of Assistive Technology versus the Reality
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In spite of vast technological innovation, a significant portion of the BVI populations’ technology use lags significantly behind the general population
Audio Memos App and WH Questions
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Expanding your O&M lessons with this fun activity for non-traditional O&M students.
Data Collection Made Easy
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Quick and easy self-calculating data sheets
Google Meet and Screen Share
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The free and easy way to use Google Meet to Screen Share
Preparing a Low Vision Student to Use a Screen Reader
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This is part two of the Screen Reader for Low Vision Students series.
CAI and Self-Determination
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A brief examination of research that explores the relationship between self-determination and computer aided instruction (CAI).
Benefits of Using a Braille Display with Emerging Readers
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Consider introducing your potential or emerging braille reader to a refreshable Braille Display!
Promoting Learning in Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers with CVI: Strategies from the CVI Companion Guide to the Developmental Guidelines
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This workshop focuses on recommended practices in early intervention and early childhood special education

Oct. 19, 2019

Promoting Independence: 19 Ways to Step Back
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Learning to step back and allow students to be as independent as possible is a crucial step in helping them to develop independence.
Screen Reader for Low Vision Students?
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My student is low vision, why should he/she be introduced to a screen reader?
Bigger is Not Always Better: Understanding Magnification
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When is too much magnification detrimental? Is there an alternative?
Ten "Odd" Things I Do With Double Vision
Ten "odd" things I do with double vision. www.veroniiiica.com
Seeing two of everything can be overwhelming. Here are ten things that I do to help minimize the effects of my double vision, and why.
From a Distance Part 3: Screen Sharing Options
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In the third and final installment in this series, we will look at apps and services for screen sharing.
Keyboarding for Young Children
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Experiences and suggestions for teaching keyboarding to Pre-K and early elementary BVI students in a group class (computer lab)setting.
UEB Math Online
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UEB Online’s new Braille mathematics program introduces students to Braille mathematical symbols and expressions.
Adding Alt Text to an Image in Word for Office 365
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Need image descriptions to Bookshare books? Here's how!
Literacy for Students who are Deafblind Tutorial
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Hearing impacts our ability to communicate, connect with others, and respond to environmental cues.

Literacy for Students who are Deafblind
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Hearing impacts our ability to communicate, connect with others, and respond to environmental cues.

Accessing Content: The ECC Connection Tutorial
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Explain the benefits of playing games with your students

Accessing Content: The ECC Connection
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Explain the benefits of playing games with your students

Planning Transition for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
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The transition from special education to post school life presents significant challenges to students, their families and their educational teams.

Ten Things I Wish My TVI Taught Me About Transition
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Ten things that I wish my teacher of the visually impaired would have taught me about transitioning to a four-year college with low vision.
The What's the Complexity Framework: Designing a visually accessible school day for the child with CVI (Fall Session)
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Use the "What's the Complexity" Framework to design a visually accessible school day for for children with CVI.

Cortical Visual Impairment (Fall Session)
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The course will include information pertaining to the causes of CVI and program planning/interventions for individuals with CVI.

Struggling Braille Readers Can Improve Their Tactile Skills with these 10 Tips
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Try these approaches when teaching emerging braille students.
Visual Search in CVI: Novel Assessment Using Virtual Reality
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CVI for the TVI series

How to teach your students to read at 600 words per minute – Part 2
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The second installment in this series explores the tools that your student can use to increase their reading speed.
Does This Child have Cerebral/Cortical Vision Impairment?
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CVI for the TVI webinar series: 4th installment

Positive Strategies for Behavioral Intervention (Keys 13)

There are 2 sessions included in this training module that examines assessment of and intervention for students with behavioral challenges.

Multimedia Accessibility in the Digital Classroom: Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments
A student looking at a large print text on a screen.

This course will address current tools to access multimedia content, and ways to integrate technology into a student’s workflow in the classroom.

Considerations for CVI & Social Inclusion Parts 1 and 2
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CVI for the TVI series

Phase III CVI
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This course will provide content related to students who have cortical visual impairment (CVI) and who are considered to be in Phase III CVI.

Working with Children with CVI from a PT/OT Perspective
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During this 1 1/2 hour webinar, Karen Barrows will discuss working with children who have CVI

Five reasons why your students should learn to read at a rate of 600 words per minute
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As a blind professional working in the sighted world, I have learned that reading speed makes the difference between success and failure.
A critique of pure educational technology
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Educational technology is a powerful tool but cannot by itself promote learning and increase student achievement; AT does level the playing field
Person-Centered Planning
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Support students’ pathways to success through this facilitated approach that empowers the student to lead the team

Becoming a Team to Build Understanding of CVI
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He was looking at lights. He was looking at me for short periods of time. He hated baby toys. We tried to pretend everything was normal.

My Expanding Understanding: The Visual Behaviors of CVI
Ellen Mazel

CVI for the TVI series

Working with Children with CVI from a PT/OT Perspective
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Cortical Visual Impairment... a whole new paradigm.

The What's the Complexity Framework: Designing a visually accessible school day for the child with CVI (Spring Session)
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Learn to use the What's the Complexity Framework to guide the educational team in designing a visually accessible school day

Orientation and Mobility Programs (Keys 9)
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"O&M Programs" is made up of 3 modules, each containing video segments, readings, lectures, and assigned activities to enhance and apply your learning.

Becoming a Team to Build Understanding of CVI
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We met with Ellen Mazel and she just said that everything's going to get better. Can you believe it?

Communication Skills (Keys 7)
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This module addresses how students with visual and multiple disabilities communicate, why they communicate, and what they communicate

Practicing The CVI Range
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Perkins eLearning has developed a course specifically to practice scoring in The CVI Range.

Web Design
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With little notice to me, school administrators decided to offer Web Design as a course at our Visually Impaired School. A brief narrative of survival:
Instructional Strategies: A Universal Design for Learning Approach (Keys 6)
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This training module addresses the principles of Universal Design for Learning and ways to balance universal strategies with individualized needs.

The Power of Not Knowing
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How a seemingly small gesture opened my mind to how I needed to learn and changed my experience of learning and learning media.
CVI Reliability Workshop
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Hands-on practice to increase your reliability in assessing children with CVI.

Tactile Graphics for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
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Graphics provide a wealth of information. But what if your students can't see them? Learn how to create tactile graphics for students who are blind.
Action Research In Special Education
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In this webcast Dr. Susan Bruce talks about inquiry as the basis of action research and the types of action research that can be conducted.

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