Tactile Strategies for Children who Have Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities

Tactile Strategies for Children who Have Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
Author: Deborah Chen
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891288190

Young children who are visually impaired and have additional disabilities need to learn to use their sense of touch effectively to promote their growth, development, and ability to communicate. This manual provides teachers, early interventionists, and parents with critical information about alternative communication methods not based on the use of vision as well as countless practical strategies. Topics include assessing a child's skills, planning interventions, and selecting appropriate tactile strategies to meet the child's needs.

Essential Elements in Early Intervention: Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities, Second Edition

Essential Elements in Early Intervention: Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities, Second Edition
Author: Deborah Chen
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2014-01-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0891284885

Essential Elements in Early Intervention is a complete sourcebooks and guide for early interventionists, teachers of students with visual impairments, and other professionals who work with young children with visual impairments, dual sensory impairments, and multiple disabilities. It includes comprehensive information on vision and hearing examinations, functional vision and hearing assessments, and effective methods of providing early intervention services. The new edition includes expanded, updated information on federal special education legislation, best practices in early intervention, evidence-based outcomes, and the role of the early interventionist, as well as strategies for working with families and educational teams successfully.

Keys to Educational Success

Keys to Educational Success
Author: Sharon Sacks
Publisher: AFB Press
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2016-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891285519

"Published in conjunction with the Perkins School for the Blind."

When You Have a Visually Impaired Student in Your Classroom

When You Have a Visually Impaired Student in Your Classroom
Author: Joanne Russotti
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891288947

This easy-to-understand guide explains the role of paraeducators (sometimes called classroom aides, teaching assistants, or paraprofessionals) in working with students who are visually impaired and assisting other members of the educational team. When You Have a Visually Impaired Student in Your Classroom: A Guide for Paraeducators provides basic information about visual impairment, the learning needs of visually impaired students, and the special devices and materials they use. Includes easy-to-use forms to help organize information and tasks.

Reading Connections

Reading Connections
Author: Cheryl Kamei-Hannan
Publisher: AFB Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2015-05
Genre: Blind children
ISBN: 9780891286349

Reading Connections: Strategies for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments offers an in-depth and user-friendly guide for understanding reading instruction for teachers and professionals seeking to improve the reading skills of their students who are visually impaired. The book addresses in detail the essential components of reading--phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension--as well as other key reading components and subskills. While this book addresses the needs of students who read print, braille, or both, much of the book is also consistent with strategies for teaching reading to students who have, or are at risk for, developing reading disabilities. Teachers of students with visual impairments, as well as family members and other professionals who work with children who are blind or visually impaired, will find within this book a repertoire of strategies and activities for creating a balanced, comprehensive plan of reading instruction for each student and for teaching the essential reading skills necessary for students' success.

Itinerant Teaching

Itinerant Teaching
Author: Jean E. Olmstead
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891288787

Using the practical advice from itinerant teachers within the US, each chapter develops strategies for working with students with visual impairments. It discusses the rights, expectations and demands of itinerant teaching, as well as the provision of services within a variety of environments.

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairment

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairment
Author: Marilyn H. Gense
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891288800

When a child with an autism spectrum disorder is also visually impaired, the effects on learning and behavior and complex and varied. Two exceptional educators condense their years of personal and professional experience into a one-of-a-kind handbook of effective ways to work with such students, including suggestions and approaches for assessment, instruction, and program planning; forms and tools for capturing vital information; information on assessment instruments, instructional materials, and web sites rich in important advice. Professionals and educators, as well as parents, will find critical guiding principles and valuable strategies.

Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments
Author: Sharon Sacks
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2006
Genre: Blind children
ISBN: 9780891288824

"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.

Foundations of Education

Foundations of Education
Author: M. Cay Holbrook
Publisher: American Printing House for the Blind
Total Pages: 982
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780891286967

The essential textbook in the field of blindness and visual impairment has been updated for the 21st c. Volume II contains new material on planning, assessment, instruction, and supporting students with visual impairments in the general education classroom. Icons in the book direct readers to supplemental materials in an online Learning Center.

Early Focus

Early Focus
Author: Rona L. Pogrund
Publisher: AFB Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1992
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Early Focus synthesizes and makes understandable the experience of professionals from such fields as: education, orientation and mobility, pediatrics, ophthalmology and optometry, psychology, occupational therapy, and social work. This is a resource for both professionals and parents.