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Monthly Archives: September 2014

Beyond the Classroom with Field-Based Experience

24 Sep

Too many teacher-prep programs in the field of blindness, especially the fully online degrees, focus too heavily upon textbooks. In many cases, we know that students don’t shake the hand of a blind person until their internships or student teaching … Read More »

Teaching Strategies elementary club, field-based experience, literacy, Saturday Club, structured discovery, visually-impaired 1 Comment

I’m Not Pulling This Second-Grader out of Class Anymore

12 Sep
Allonah, a second grader, reading braille in her regular ed classroom

This summer at the AER International Conference, our team from Louisiana Tech University showed teachers of blind students how to move a first-grade student through the braille code in one year. The student with whom I developed this technique last … Read More »

Teaching Strategies 2014 International AER Conference, accessibility, accommodations, braille, independence, literacy 1 Comment

Camera and Computer Serve as ‘Transformer’ for Low Vision Students

2 Sep
Lady sitting in front of computer with a vertical, split-screen and Transformer camera over document

My students who have low vision are not too fond of the massive, heavy schoolbooks they have to carry from class to class. The large print books are, well, so large that they are awkward for most desks and little … Read More »

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