Insightful Publications
Insightful Publications is a website designed to make state handbooks and the information they contain accessible via screen readers.
Resources
Strengthening Your Parenting Partnership During Pediatric Illness
Raising a child with significant special or medical needs is challenging. Have you stopped to think about how that challenge is effecting your relationship with your spouse or partner?
Crazy Gears app with CVI settings
This app that teaches cause and effect and basic math concepts also has a built in “cortical visual impairment option” that allows you to change the color scheme.
EazyHold: Grip Assist Strap
EazyHold is a simple grip assist strap that easily attaches to objects enabling kids with limited grip strength to accomplish daily living skills.
Quiet Books Blog
A quiet book is a book (usually made out of fabric) filled with quiet activities for children. It’s often used for special times, like church, when you need to keep children happy and quiet. Or you can just use it when you want a break!
Made with Love 213: G-Tube Belts, Feeding Pump Packets & More
Handmade Clothing, Feeding Tube Accessories, Clothing Accessories, Hair accessories, and Baby gear.
Headpod keeps your head up!
Headpod keeps your head up! Revolutionary dynamic patented head support system for inadequate head control due to hypotonia of the neck muscles.
Hope For Orphans with Visual Impairments
This site is dedicated to finding families for orphans with visual impairments. The children listed on this site may have a very minor impairment, such as a lazy eye (amblyopia ), or a more serious issue like cancer of the eye.
Raising A Sensory Smart Child
For children who struggle to process everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch, movement, sounds, and sights.
10 Things You Should Know about Feeding Therapy
Frienship Circle’s article on feeding therapy includes where to find help, assessment and therapy, as well as the family dynamics of it all, and the big one – patience!
I read with My hands: Tactile books
I read with my hands books have helped teachers and parents to introduce reading in a fun way to young visually impaired/blind children.
Understood: For Learning and Attention Issues
Understood is an online resources that offers a parent toolkit with valuable resources for learning about diagnoses, IEPs, and more!
CVI on APH: The Conversation Continues
A resource for research articles, books, websites, blogs, strategies and support for parents of children diagnosed with Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI).
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
This book geared to young readers features a girl who is blind who does everything her friends can do and more.
Diagram Center from Benetech
The Diagram Center is a great online resource with multiple tools and information for creating accessible images and graphics for children with visual impairments.