Expanded Core Curriculum

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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
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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
Image of a young girl sits in front of a computer.

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
Mad Libs logo
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
Schedule board
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
Tactile subway map
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.
Self-Determination: "If I Were In Charge Of the World"
two hands side-by-side with an image of the Earth printed on them
An activity that provides an opportunity for students who are visually impaired to articulate who they are and what matters to them.
45 Teaching Strategies in 60 Minutes
A young girl is putting objects into a blue bin.

Educational Consultant Donna McNear shares easily implementable methods to manage and deliver services to students with visual impairments.

Loading the Dishwasher
A teenager dries dishes.
Many skills can be taught to youth with visual impairments and additional disabilities when loading the dishwasher
45 Teaching Strategies in 60 Minutes
A girl is putting objects into a basket.

From student evaluation to specialized instruction to accommodations to progress...these 45 strategies provide teachers with easily implementable methods.

Packaging Snacks
snacks
Students work together to complete the process while developing multiple skills!
Encouraging Independent Living Skills in the Science Lab
A student is wiping down the lab table.
This blog is designed to describe how to easily incorporate independent living skills into instruction in the science lab.
Concept Development for Independent Living Skills
Young man cooking on stove
Tips for teaching concept development through independent living skills to transition-age youth who are blind with additional disabilities
Indoor Modified Football: Activity 5 Passing Play
2 students standing on either end of a football carpet
The following is part of a series of 6 different activities related to football. These activities have been completed by students at Perkins School.
Indoor Modified Football: Activity 4 Running Play
student prepared to "hike" the ball on green carpet
The following is part of a series of 6 different activities related to football. These activities have been completed by students at Perkins School.
Indoor Modified Football: Activity 3 Field Goal Kick
students kicking football on carpet
The following is part of a series of 6 different activities related to football. These activities have been completed by students at Perkins School.
Indoor Modified Football: Activity 2 Kickoff Return
football green carpet with two cones on the end
The following is part of a series of 6 different activities related to football. These activities have been completed by students at Perkins School.
Transition to College
A young man walks with his cane among other students on college campus.

There are 2 webcasts included in this training module that discusses college preparation with parents and educators.

Tips to Help Students with Visual Impairments Succeed in a Job Interview
An adolescent who is blind is interviewed.
Tips to help individuals who are blind or visually impaired to succeed in a job interview.
Sensory Processing (Part 2 of 2): Techniques to Address Sensory Processing Difficulties
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In this tutorial participants will learn to distinguish between typical processing function, processing dysfunction, and processing disorders.

Tips for Your Students On Talking About a Disability with an Employer
Transition-age youth who is blind meeting with employer in work setting
Tips for youth who are blind or visually impaired to address their disability with a potential employer
Sensory Processing (Part 1 of 2): Sensory Processing and Dysfunction
Middleschool girl with glasses and coach on balance balls.

In this tutorial participants will learn to distinguish between typical processing function, processing dysfunction, and processing disorder.

Sensory Processing (Part 2 of 2): Techniques to Address Sensory Processing Difficulties
A graphic that reads, If you're feeling upset, say I need a break.

Amanda Martinage continues her discussion of Sensory Processing, presenting techniques to address sensory processing difficulties.

Community Involvement: A Vital Tool for Success
Tim Vernon sitting on bench
A look at the importance of community involvement for people who are blind or visually impaired
Tips for Teaching Your Student How to Talk about a Vision Impairment
Teenage boy wearing food service cap
Youth who are blind or who have low vision need to learn how to discuss their visual impairment

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