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Playing in GMU Green Machine Pep Band with Vision Impairment
Playing in GMU Green Machine Pep Band with Vision Impairment. www.veroniiiica.com
Learn how I play in my university's pep band, the GMU Green machine, and watch my interview on NBC 4!
More Trucks HD: A Fun and Accessible iPad App!
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This post describes the "More Trucks HD" app, which the author has used successfully with students of varying ages and developmental levels.
Teaching Independent Living Skills (Keys 11)
two Perkins students working at the Perkins Cafe

There are 2 sessions included in this training module that demonstrate theories and best practices for independent living.

Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments (Keys 5)
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Align Core and Expanded Core Curricula for students with visual and multiple disabilities.

Audio Game Hub App Review
Audio Game Hub App Review. www.veroniiiica.org
A collection of 3D audio Games designed for the Visually Impaired. Available for iOS and Android.
Adaptive Physical Education
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Matt LaCortiglia presents a FAIER planning model to develop physical activities for individuals with disabilities.

Addressing Issues of Sexuality with Students Who are Visually Impaired
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Jeff Migliozzi on the importance of sexuality education for individuals with vision impairments including those with additional disabilities.

Good Sleep Strategies
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Veronika Bernstein offers helpful strategies to address the challenges of developing good sleep habits in children with visual impairments.

Issues in Social Skills & Sex Education
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In this video, Tom Miller discusses social skills and sex education for children and youth who have sensory impairments.

Mealtime Skills
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In this webcast, Sue Shannon focuses on mealtime skills and offers a video demonstration for these skills pouring, serving, using utensils and cutting.

Nondriving: Strategies for Preparing Children and Youth
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Dr. Penny Rosenblum discusses the development of navigational and social skills for children and adults who are visually impaired and unable to drive.

Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments
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In this webcast, Tom Miller looks at social skills development for students with visual impairment.

Teaching Braille Reading & Writing
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In this webcast, Lucia Hasty discusses the importance of early literacy, language and concept development for children who are blind.

Teaching Tactile Graphics
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In this webcast, Lucia Hasty discusses spatial relationship and graphic literacy and strategies for teaching students to read tactile graphics.

Developing Social Skills in Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
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This webcast explains the importance of including social skills instruction when teaching children who are blind or visually impaired.

New Technology for Education: A CSUN Report
Visually impaired participant at a technology conference.

This tutorial provides a post-conference roundup from the field of education of students with multiple disabilities, including visual impairment.

New Technology for Education: a CSUN Report
Visually impaired participant at a technology conference.

Dr. Yue-Ting Siu, will provide a post-conference roundup from the field of education of students with multiple disabilities

Talking Wand
A man's hands: one hand holding a vitamin jar & other hand holding a Talking Wand - a pen-like tool.
Check out these creative ideas for using audio labels with students!
How Do People wth Low Vision . . . Participate in Concert Band?
How do people with low vision participate in concert band? www.veroniiiica.com
Strategies for band participation.
Web Browsing Basics with Screen Readers
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Learning how to navigate around a computer with screen reading software can feel like a huge challenge. Getting around on the internet can feel even tougher.
iPads and Preparing for Productivity
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iPads are often used as accessibility solutions for students with visual impairments. However the iPad by itself is not a finished solution.
RBDigital Magazines and Zinio for Libraries Review
RBDigital Magazines and Zinio for Libraries Review. www.veroniiiica.com
Read Magazines for free with your participating library with RBDigital app and Zinio for Libraries.
Eyes-Free Fitness: Described Workouts for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Eyes Free Fitness by BlindAlive: Described Workouts for the blind and visually impaired
This article will introduce the relatively new Eyes-Free Fitness app from BlindAlive.
Student Assessment
Student touches an tactille object on a black board.

How to evaluate your students’ progress using data collection systems and how to incorporate the data into current assessment processes.

What's Cooking? Finding Recipes using Big Oven
What's Cooking? Finding Recipes Using the Big Oven app.
Big Oven is a free iOS app that is quite accessible and easy to use!
Mulling Spices
mulled-apple cider
Make mulling spices to stimulate the senses while students learn math, language arts, social skills, and independent living skills.
Cortical Visual Impairment - Spring 2021
A young girl wearing glasses is pointing at a computer screen.

The course will include information pertaining to the causes of CVI and program planning/interventions for individuals with CVI.

Indoor Modified Football: Activity 1 Running Handoff
6 indoor modified football activities
The following is part of a series of 6 different activities related to making football accessible with visual impairments or multiple disabilities.
Orientation & Mobility: Directions to Home
iPhone using BlindWays app
This activity requires students who are blind or visually impaired to direct someone to their house using O&M, work readiness, and independent living skills.
Educating Students with Visual Impairments & Multiple Disabilities: An Overview (Keys 1)
A teacher and a visually impaired student read a book.

Theories and best practices for teaching students with visual impairments and additional disabilities.

The Role of the Professional
A teacher and a student in a science classroom.

Learn how to implement RBEI principles and strategies and how to achieve "buy in" regarding ECC implementation.

Addressing the ECC Through A Scavenger Hunt
two students walking down a sidewalk, one has a white cane
Scavenger hunts are a fun way to address all parts of the Expanded Core Curriculum!
Beyond the Classroom: Topics in the Expanded Core Curriculum
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This tutorial is made up of 4 modules, containing a lecture, video segments, readings, and assigned activities to enhance and apply your learning.

Budgeting and Money Management
A teacher walking with her student who is carrying several grocery bags and her white cane. The student has earphones on.
An activity to help blind and visually impaired students plan for transition and adult life as they learn about budgeting.
MadLibs Social Skills
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Use MadLibs to build social skills with students who are blind or visually impaired.
Tips for Finding Social or Recreational Services
Running on a treadmill
It can be challenging to find social or recreational services for individuals with visual impairments, including those who have multiple disabilities or deafblindness.
Movie Night: Planning a Recreational Activity
a shelf with DVDs on it
This activity is designed to help students with visual impairments learn about options for watching accessible movies and television.
Self-Determination: Setting IEP Goals
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An activity that encourages students who are blind or visually impaired to participate in their IEP goal development.
Career Development & Self-Determination to Achieve Transition Success: Expanding the Core Curriculum
Students are working at a cafe on Perkins campus.

Learn how to support children with visual impairments through the career education model.

Theme Based Lessons
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In this webinar, Gwyn McCormack, of PositiveEye UK shares theme-based lessons that provide a breadth of cross-curricular activities.

Theme Based Lessons
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In this webinar, Gwyn McCormack, of PositiveEye UK shares theme-based lessons that provide a breadth of cross-curricular activities.

Calling to Order a Pizza
hands holding and dialing an iPhone
A hands-on activity that encourages social skill development as students who are blind or visually impaired use the phone to order a pizza.
Building Social Skills Through Game Night
A group of students playing Farkle
Playing games can be a fun way to develop social skills for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities.
Learning about the Roles of IEP Team
A teacher talking to a teenage boy
Learning about the roles of the members of the IEP team are an important step towards self-determination, which is part of the ECC (Expanded Core Curriculum).
Learning to Ask for Help
A teen who is blind shakes the hand of a woman in a bank.
This activity is designed to help students with vision impairments develop increasing practice and comfort with requesting assistance, in progressively more challenging situations.
Understanding Accommodations Needed
An adolescent girl uses a VisoBook
This activity encourages students with special needs to become aware of and think critically about the accommodations they receive at school.
Talking About Disability-Related Needs
A counselor sits with a student using a refreshable braille display
This activity encourages individuals to learn about and describe their vision impairments and any additional disabilities, as a step toward self-determination.
Tips to Develop Self-Advocacy Skills
Woman speaking on the phone
A young man who is blind shares strategies for individuals with visual impairments to promote the development of advocacy skills.
Personal Task Management Using a Schedule Board
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This activity introduces students with visual impairments to personal task management, which includes skills in a variety of areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC), such as self-determination, independent living, and compensatory skills.
Making Choices and Taking Ownership
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In this activity, students who are blind or visually impaired develop self-determination skills by making choices about participating in an activity and then taking responsibility for planning the actual activity.

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