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Appsolutely Engaging and Educational - Part 2: Using iPad Apps with Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

This webinar offers strategies, tips and techniques for using an iPad with students who are visually impaired and may have additional disabilities.

Appsolutely Engaging and Educational - Part 1: Using iPad Apps with Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

This webinar offers strategies, tips and techniques for using an iPad with students who are visually impaired and may have additional disabilities.

Effective Access to Communication and Literacy for Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities

Positioning and other best practices to increase access to technology for students with multiple disabilities during classroom activities.

Sensory Activities: Experiences to Improve Communication and Literacy for Children with Visual and Multiple Disabilities

Webinar explains importance of pairing sensory activities and communication skills for effective learning for visual and multiple disabilities children.

Technology for Us Too

Webinar focuses on teaching basic communication to students who are blind or have low vision with significant multiple disabilities using assistive tech.

HumanWare Communication Solutions for People who are Deaf-Blind

Dominic Gagliano and Greg Stilson from HumanWare present information on assistive technology options to promote communication for people who are deafblind.

Deafblind Technology Solutions

This webinar presents various assistive technology products that have been developed for individuals who are deafblind.

Tips for Modifying the Learning Environment for Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities

Review classroom modifications to meet your students' individual needs at the beginning of every school year.

Challenging Behavior: Impulsivity

Learn about impulsivity in children with visual impairments and strategies to address the associated behavioral challenges.

Classroom Organization & Management

There are many advantages to creating a predictable environment for child with visual and multiple impairments.

Dog Treats

Build a classroom business making and selling dog treats as students practice multiple skills.

Spooky Halloween Hand

Every child will enjoy learning basic functional skills during this fun Halloween activity!

Salad on a Stick

Practice math and fine motor skills while students make this healthy snack!

Apple Cinnamon Ornaments

Use this simple recipe for a perfect holiday activity to develop memory skills and independence.

Crayon Hearts

Making crayons the child can use after the activity is finished is a rewarding and motivating experience.

Winter Sun Catchers

Real object materials make this multi-sensory project fun for kids of all sight levels to enjoy for days.

Multi-Class Flea Market

A community setting is a perfect place to practice social skills while linking real life and classroom lessons.

Ice Cream in a Bag

Students will enjoy the edible reward of their hard work while learning basic science principles!

Potted Chocolate Pudding

This cooking project can be used as a simple activity or expanded to include multiple skills and goals.

Shell Matching Game

Use real objects to make your own games for practicing matching, scanning and following directions.

Tactile Timelines

Break down the concept of time into manageable steps using tangible objects to promote better understanding.

Individualized Adapted Calendars

Use meaningful language and tangible symbols to create an accessible schedule calendar.

Valentine Cards

Kids will enjoy giving and receiving these tangible Valentines, perfect for building holiday concepts.

Move Myself

Teach positional concepts to students as they relate objects' positions to their own body.

Can You Find It?

Develop tactile object identification through a variety of games to practice the skill for independent living.

Where, Oh, Where Is My Friend?

Increase independence of identifying and locating people in room using a sound localization game.

Find All of the…

Teach students to select named objects through object discrimination skills and searching techniques.

Mystery Bag

A game of object "Hide & Seek" reinforces social skills and tactile discrimination skills.

Who Am I?

Use audio recordings of familiar voices to make a fun auditory discrimination guessing game!

The Drum is the King

Use the beat of a drum as an adapted "Red Light, Green Light" game for listening skills!

Echo Playing

A repetitive drum game encourages children to listen and copy the rhythm.

Go Fish with Objects

Adapt the classic game to refine tactile discrimination, matching skills and social play!

Learning to Express Myself

Use preferred reinforcers to encourage children to express their feelings and opinions.

Warm-up Exercise with Hula Hoop

Play with a hula hoop to encourage participation among peers in PE.

Placemats on Trays

Practice one-to-one correspondence with this simple lunchtime activity.

Accessible labels

Label objects and areas in the classroom to help build early literacy.

Counting Book

Make a tactile counting book to introduce number sense!

Counting in Tactile Journals

Create tactile journals for art or as a strategy for teaching math using concrete manipulatives.

Making Choices

Develop communication skills and self-expression with simple choice-making activities.

Tactile quilts that tell a story

Make a classroom quilt of memories that all children can enjoy!

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