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3D Printing: What's Realistic for TVIs?
Webinar | Approximately one hour
Nonscriptum co-founders Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron present an overview of 3-D printing technology, with an emphasis on teaching and learning strategies. This presentation will cover typical costs...
45 Teaching Strategies in 60 Minutes
Webinar | Approximately one hour
From student evaluation to specialized instruction to accommodations to progress...these 45 strategies provide teachers with easily implementable methods to manage and deliver services to students...
A Parent's Perspective: Helping Your Child with Multiple Disabilities Engage with the World Around Them
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
Amber is a parent of a young boy with visual impairment and additional disabilities. In this webcast, she talks about how important it is to involve children with disabilities in their community and...
Access to Appropriate Programs for Children with Multiple Disabilities, Visual Impairment and Deafblind Children in Croatia
Webinar | Approximately 30 minutes
In this webinar Director Mahmuljin provides an overview of the prevalence of children with multiple disabilities in Croatia, and their placement opportunities.
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Accessible Books and Literacy: Supporting and Encouraging a Love for Literacy
Webinar | Approximately one hour
Sandy shares her rich ideas about how to support literacy for the individual child and also within her whole community.
In this webinar, she describes how she helps develop her son’s literacy skills...
Accessible Instructional Materials in the Digital Classroom
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
In this webcast, Yue Ting Siu provides us with an introduction to current technologies employed to facilitate access to instructional materials. In addition, she engages us in exploration of new and...
Accessible Science: Making Life Sciences Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
This webcast is intended to assist educators in adapting Science curriculum for visually impaired and deaf-blind students. While the demonstrations were recorded in a classroom at Perkins School for...
Accessible Technology Options for the Blind and Visually Impaired Reader
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
Brian Charlson, Technology Director at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton, MA. demonstrates a variety of devices that provide the capability of accessing books via speech, large print, or...
Accessing Content: The ECC Connection
Webinar | Approximately one hour
Explain the benefits of playing games with your students
Suggest Methods for creating a single game that can be used across math and literacy curricula
Identify strategies to instill a...
Action Research In Special Education
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
In this webcast Dr. Susan Bruce talks about inquiry as the basis of action research and the types of action research that can be conducted. In addition, she shares examples of action research studies...
Active Learning Study Group 2019-2020
Webinar | Approximately one hour
The purpose of the free Study Group this year will be to share case studies and discuss implementation of an Active Learning approach. Using student video and planning documents, participants will...
Adapting Environments for Individuals with Vision Loss
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
Darick Wright, Coordinator of the New England Eye Clinic at Perkins, speaks about adapting the environment to help maximize the use of vision. He provides guidelines for environmental modifications...
Adaptive Physical Education
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
Matt LaCortiglia, Adaptive Physical Education Teacher at Perkins School for the Blind, presents a FAIER planning model to develop physical activities for individuals with disabilities. FAIER is an...
Addressing Issues of Sexuality with Students Who are Visually Impaired
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
Jeff Migliozzi encourages parents and educators to be frank and explicit when talking about sex education to individuals with vision impairment, including those with additional disabilities. He also...
Advocating For Your Child's Needs
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
Diana Autin offers deafblindness guidance based on Educational Service Guidelines that were developed by New Jersey's Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN). Guides include fact sheets, mini-guides...
Appsolutely Engaging and Educational - Part 1: Using iPad Apps with Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities
Webinar | Approximately one hour
This one-hour webinar offers strategies, tips and techniques for using an iPad with students who are visually impaired and may have additional disabilities. The presentation offers suggestions on...
Appsolutely Engaging and Educational - Part 2: Using iPad Apps with Children with Visual Impairments and Additional Disabilities
Webinar | Approximately one hour
This one-hour webinar offers strategies, tips and techniques for using an iPad with students who are visually impaired and may have additional disabilities.
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Assessing Complexity for Children with CVI
Teachable Moment | Approximately 5 minutes
In this video, Ellen Mazel talks about different types of complexity — complexity of object, complexity of an array, complexity of other sensory inputs, and complexity of the human face — and the...
Assessment That Informs Instruction: Don't Just Guess - Assess!
Webinar | Approximately one hour
This one-hour webinar explores the role of the teacher of students with visual impairments (TVI) in reading and writing instruction, both as a collaborator with the general classroom teacher and as a...
Assistive Technology Assessment
Webcast | Approximately 30 minutes
In this webcast, Presley talks about the world of assistive technology and walks us through a range of assistive technology options. He shares some of the strategies involved in conducting an...