3 Tips for Teaching Young Children with a Visual Impairment How to Become Strong Readers
Here are 3 tips to get your child off to a great start with their braille reading skills. Learn how you can help them become strong readers!
Teaching a Blind Child How to Use a Spoon Independently
Tips, ideas and resources for teaching your blind child how to scoop and use a spoon on their own without using hand over hand techniques.
Assessing Visual Abilities in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Is it important to take vision into account when assessing the needs of children with cerebral palsy? You can help make that happen!
Help! My Baby Won’t Stay in the Crib at Night!
A question from a mom in the WonderBaby community: My 2 year old has become an escape artist! She is climbing out of her crib at night. What can I do?
How Can I Get My Son To Keep His Glasses On?
A question for our parent community: I need proven techniques used to get a two year old to wear his new glasses. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
8 Creative and Unique Ideas for Decorating a Blind Child’s Room
Use tactile elements, interesting fabrics and textures, sounds and lights to create the perfect unique space for your blind or visually impaired child.
Jungle Jive Balancing Game
Jungle Jive is a pretty simple game that gets your child up and moving. The object is to hold the egg steady and not tip it – or it will laugh at you!
Auditory processing and why blind children may be sensitive to sounds
It’s not at all usual for visually impaired kids to react negatively to certain sounds. Find out why and what to do about it.
Top tips and advice for visiting London with a young person who is visually impaired
Here are some recommendations if you are visiting London with a child who is visually impaired to ensure you have a fun, inclusive and accessible visit.
The Ultimate Toy Guide for Blind Children
In this toy guide, you will learn how to find the best toys for your child who is blind, including what to look for in off-the-shelf toys and how to adapt or make your own toys so they meet your child’s needs.
Crawling & Climbing for Blind Babies
Crawling and climbing are two very important developmental milestones for babies and children who are blind. Some babies may skip these steps or reach them later than their typically developing peers, but there are many ways you can encourage crawling and climbing.
Wooden Braille Blocks from Little Sapling Toys
This company creates high-quality organic wooden toys. Many of their toys are very simple and thus accessible for any child, but our favorite has to be their Organic Wood Braille Alphabet Blocks.
EDA PLAY ELIS App Review
EDA PLAY ELIS is an iPad app designed for young children who have low vision or CVI and who are learning how to use their vision.
Learning Advocacy When You Have Low Vision
L. Penny Rosenblum is a TVI, a parent and student advocate, and has a vision impairment. She writes about what it was like learning to advocate for herself as a child and how to teach these skills to your own children.
Positive Eye: Training and resources for practitioners working with children with vision impairment
Positive Eye was established five years ago to offer a consultancy and training service to professionals and parents on meeting the educational needs of children and young people with visual impairment.
Recycling OT Videos
Barbara Smith shares videos with ideas for making interesting games and toys out of basic materials that will encourage fine motor skills.
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