Early Childhood
What tactile math skills should be taught before transitioning to math activities in a digital format?
Practice braille contractions while reading about Noelle the cat!
The Novel Effect app adds sound effects to APH's tactile book!
From Hospital to Home: Using Early Visual Functioning to Support Families
Turn your emerging braille student into a braille wizard!
Coding concept games are navigating through a maze; how can students with visual impairments access digital mazes?
Create exciting video stories VI and O&M activities!
Here are additional number line activities and concepts; including how number lines can help with braille reversals!
Their computer tech goals for preschoolers?!?
From Hospital to Home: Using Early Visual Functioning to Support Families
Matt Tietjen provides an overview of designing a school day for a child with CVI
Introducing addition and subtraction to a young braille student using a number line.
Searching for Paths to Technology posts on accessible coding concepts and coding? Check out this reference list!
Simple fun ways to adapt and teach basic number line concepts to a young braille student.
This emerging reader is learning to read in three mediums: magnified print, braille and auditory.
Using holiday poems to teach technology skills.
What to do, when? Order of coding concept activities and skills.
Using Specdrums by Sphero to develop independence on braille cell concept for emergent braillers.
Use this fun app to introduce digital tables to young students!
Here is a fun acorn lesson plan - perfect to do before Back-to-School Night!
Fun activities to apply coding and engineering concepts using simple robots.
Challenge your students with this fun activity only requires plastic cups, a couple of command cards and brain power!
Consider introducing your potential or emerging braille reader to a refreshable Braille Display!
Try these tried and true tips when learning VoiceOver gestures or when teaching students/adults 3-finger gestures.
Try these tried and true tips when learning VoiceOver gestures or when teaching students/adults 2-finger gestures.
Sonokids, the creators of the Ballyland iPad apps, have broadened out into PC software with their new Ballyland Keyboarding program! Here's a sneak peek!
Try these tried and true tips when learning VoiceOver gestures or when teaching students/adults 1-finger VoiceOver gestures.
This adorable robot can be programmed to move, spin, talk, and play games!
Experiences and suggestions for teaching keyboarding to Pre-K and early elementary BVI students in a group class (computer lab)setting.
Teach coding concepts using familiar stories. Learning to separate 'turn' and 'move forward' commands.
Building mental maps starts with room familiarization and then then the world!
Peg Palmer discusses how creating a tangible calendar system for children with CVI can help them
Teach coding concepts and math concepts using familiar stories. This activity focuses on teaching grid skills, choosing the shortest route and numbering.
Here is the third Ballyland Coding App - are you ready for a new challenge?
This app addresses the issue of teaching number line concepts in a digital format.
Aeden learns to pair and check that his Braille Display is talking/conversing with his iPad.
This app is a FUN way to learn iOS gestures, listening skills and increasing auditory processing!
This fun cause-and-effect app c es of s animal names, sounds and and basic tech skills.
