Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech
Photo of Paige Morra Paige Morra wanted to be an engineer. She thought her career goals were all set until she interned and completed her practicum for Dr. Edward Bell, a professor who directs the Louisiana Tech Graduate Programs for … Read More »
In 2012, Mississippi became the first state in the nation to require teachers of blind students to, at a minimum, include a research-based assessment in their determination of whether students’ primary reading media should be print, braille or both. At … Read More »
It is vital that we as teachers of the blind and visually impaired maintain high expectations for our students and understand the true capability of the blind. Meeting and collaborating with competent blind adults who are living the lives they … Read More »
Blind people and those who teach cane travel must learn to pay attention to the environment beyond the tips of their canes. We must listen to traffic, people around us, music from nearby shops, echoes caused by our tapping, and … Read More »
SAVE THE DATE for the Third Biennial Louisiana Teacher Training Conference on Blindness and Low Vision Sep. 25-26, 2015 at the Louisiana Center for the Blind This will be a regionally-focused professional development conference on current trends, technology, concerns and … Read More »
A project for the Teaching Strategies class that I’m taking this quarter as part of the teacher of blind students master's program is to come up with a lesson plan to teach literacy skills. Not only do we develop the … Read More »
My second grade student knows the braille code and loves sharing it with her classmates, but her reading fluency did not match that of her sighted peers. She would try to guess at words after looking at the first couple … Read More »
Significant vision loss and the thought of pending blindness is among the most fearful horrors a parent may face. The thought that your child may lose more vision is frightening; the prospect of him growing up and becoming blind is … Read More »
Rehab teachers are known as “the bump dot people.” We’re seen as the people who mark appliances with raised stickers (called bump dots) and hand out nifty gadgets for people who are blind or have low vision. That’s a nationwide … Read More »
My grandmother lost her vision when I was 12 years old. This will sound harsh, but it’s true: my parents crippled her through love and ignorance by not allowing her to do anything. This special lady had always taken care … Read More »