Expanded Core Curriculum
Teach positional concepts to students as they relate objects' positions to their own body.
Practice pre-braille skills including tactile discrimination, sorting, and object identification in this simple game!
A simple game of catch can be adapted in many ways to work on motor skills and O&M.
Learning about how communities work helps children understand more about the world around them.
Build confidence and independence while taking part in school organizations with appropriate tasks.
Learn how to choose appropriate foods and packages for safety and independence!
Children will have fun practicing motor skills during this special "Simon Says" game!
A game of object "Hide & Seek" reinforces social skills and tactile discrimination skills.
Use audio recordings of familiar voices to make a fun auditory discrimination guessing game!
Give descriptive clues to help children practice inference of familiar places and settings.
Practice packing a toiletries bag to work on problem solving, fine motor and vocational skills.
Use an adapted daily calendar to reinforce the concept of time through the school year.
Children use their bodies and a box as tread to practice crawling and gross motor skills.
Students learn shapes based on real objects to form tactile discrimination, math and language skills.
Smell and taste are often motivating reinforcers for children with visual impairments!
Students learn to react appropriately when their names are called within a group setting.
Students use familiar activities to practice sequencing skills using expressive language.
Incorporating pretend play can often be a great motivator for working on simple goals and tasks!
Help students develop a stronger sense of self through this critical thinking activity.
Explore the senses while making cards of a variety of scents, textures, colors and sounds.
Adapt the classic game to refine tactile discrimination, matching skills and social play!
Use daily living activities to practice a variety of independence skills.
Make art time a multi-sensory activity with these tips for adding texture!
Adapt a beach with sound to make locating it possible for children with visual impairments.
Introduce tactile graphics and map concepts with a representation of a familiar area!
Create tactile journals for art or as a strategy for teaching math using concrete manipulatives.
