Open captioned. Join us to learn about the benefits and limitations of learning management systems for students with visual impairments. Gain knowledge of options such as advocating for accessibility and working collaboratively with your students' general education teachers. Contribute to the discussion of helping to improve our students' virtual learning experience.

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3/1/2022

Close Captioned presented by David Wiley

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7/8/2021

During a Coffee Hour session on 10/19/20, we introduced the Progression of Tactile Learning, a checklist designed to help teachers create a “Tactile Profile” for students with visual impairment who are struggling with the acquisition of tactile skills and/or have not made expected progress toward attaining tactile literacy. The information gathered with this evaluation tool will assist in developing instruction that targets specific individual needs. Using input from our colleagues, this checklist has been updated, modified, and reorganized. We would like to share the new checklist, discuss the additional resources, and show how it is currently organized.

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4/26/2021

9/26/2017 Using video, webinar series participants will collaborate with one another throughout the school year in order to design effective and meaningful routines for their own students. Webinar moderators will present the first student (in September) and participants will volunteer for subsequent student videos. Participants will make suggestions for what will help the student within the routine. The staff who shares their student video will follow up in the next session with video and/or discussion of how the suggestions worked out for the student. Click the Chapters button above to view individual segments: - What is an Instructional Routine? - Why Use an Instructional Routine? - Gathering Information for a Routine - Case Study & Discussion - Future Study Groups Click the Attachment button to download a transcript, audio file, and/or handout.

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10/25/2017

Talking can be a distraction during an activity. It can move the focus from the activity to the adult. When you're playing with a child, you talk in the pauses of the activity, briefly and quickly, and then you let the child explore for themselves. Click the Resources button to download a transcript, audio file, and/or handout.

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7/6/2017

A massive anxiety cannot be removed by demands or requests to do what you are afraid of doing. While using energy to resist child is unable to learn anything at all. If learners want to spend time with you, you're probably playing at their emotional level. Click the Resources button to download a transcript or audio file.

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7/6/2017

Patty Obrzut, Assistant Director of the Penrickton Center for Blind Children discusses challenges you might face in implementing Active Learning techniques and how to modify the learning environment so that it encourages exploration and independent activity.

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11/10/2016

Testimonials from parents who participated in the The Power of Touch workshop at Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired. Click the Resources button for a transcript (txt) and/or audio recording (mp3).

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3/22/2016