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TechVision is a company that strives to show you how children and adults who have vision impairments or reading challenges can learn the technology and skills that will help them succeed in life.
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Caroline's Cart is the brilliant idea of Drew Ann Long. She has developed an accessible shopping cart designed specifically for larger children and adults with low muscle tone and multiple disabilities. If your child is too big for a standard shopping cart at your grocery store then you probably know how badly this cart is needed.
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NFB believes the long white cane is a means to independence. The white cane has proved a useful tool to millions of blind people in navigating their environments with confidence and safety and with this in mind NFB has created a program to provide free white canes to people who are blind. Just fill out their online form to apply!
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This blog shares creative activity ideas for PT and OT. They believe that therapy should be fun - otherwise how will you get your child to keep up with it? Even though this blog is designed for therapists to get ideas for their clients, parents can find lots of fun activities here for their kids, too!
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Large pictures can be a great way to introduce concepts to children with low vision and can really help kids who need help with communication. LessonPix takes this idea one step further by allowing you to choose from their huge database of simple iconographic pictures and turn them into all sorts of hands-on learning materials.
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Pediastaff's Pinterest boards cover just about everything, from OT or behavioral hints to specific boards with resources about CP, autism or visual impairment. I also love their holiday-themed boards with craft and celebration ideas. Each board links to resources they've found around the internet that are relevant to the topic.
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This program provides a special opportunity for families to enjoy their favorite films in a safe and accepting environment. The auditoriums dedicated to the program have their lights up, the sound turned down and audience members are invited to get up and dance, walk, shout or sing!
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The Vision of Children is a California organization dedicated to curing hereditary childhood blindness and other vision disorders and to improve the lives of visually impaired children and their families. Besides collecting donations and raising money for research, they also encourage family advocacy and patient registries.
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This blog is written by Elizabeth Eagan Satter, a TVI in Washington state. She posts ideas for working with students, discusses special education issues and links to interesting articles and resources. This is a great website to keep in your bookmarks!
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"Amber & Max" is a candid sharing of the good, the bad, and the ugly experiences we have in living through Septo-Optic Dysplasia. It began as an effort to share information with family living out-of-state and grew into a way to offer support and understanding for families going through similar situations.
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What's soft, squeezable and makes a fun pop sound? The Squeeze 'n Pop Alligator from Playskool! We love this toy because it fits in little hands nicely and is easy to squeeze, but still gives hands a nice workout. Squeezing can be hard for some kids to do and this toy provides them the chance to practice while also giving them the fun "POP" feedback of the ball popping out of the alligator's nose.
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Barbara Smith, aka The Recycling OT, shares videos with ideas for making interesting games and toys that will encourage fine motor skills. Barbara's ideas often use simple objects you already have around the house, like reusable detergent bottles (hence the "recycling"), and turns them into ingenious devices that will both keep your child busy and teach them new skills. She's kind of a genius!
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The Color N Paint books feature twelve fun, raised line art drawings and include the printed word and Braille for each design. The raised line art pictures are perfect for visually impaired children to learn shapes and outlines. They are also beneficial to children and adults working to improve their fine motor skills and for anyone whose learning is enhanced through the sense of touch.
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This site provides a series of tip sheets covering different activities and ideas for working with children who are blind or visually impaired. Each month they put out a new tip sheet on a different topic, from "Making Object Books" to "Things to Try When You Get Stuck"... and everything in between!
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Learn about assistive technology for people with reading disabilities, low vision, blindness and other disabilities that make reading, writing and other tasks difficult. Written by someone who uses assistive technology to read and write.
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Here at FSDB, we prepare students to become literate, productive citizens who contribute back to their communities. Our expectations are high and our enthusiasm for our students to do more, be more and achieve more is boundless.
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Oak Hill helps people with disabilities experience rich, fulfilling lives in communities throughout Connecticut. Through education, assistive technology, programs and advocacy, we support them at every stage of life.
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The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) was established for the purpose of providing comprehensive educational services for children, birth to age 21, who are blind/low vision and/or deaf/hard of hearing.
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The California School for the Blind provides intensive, disability specific educational services for enrolled students who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind, and visually impaired/multi-disabled, whose primary learning needs are related to their visual impairment.
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The Arkansas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired offers statewide quality educational programs and resources to students who are blind or visually impaired, birth through twenty-one
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The Arizona School for the Blind (ASB), located on the Tucson Campus of the Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind, is accredited by AdvancED and provides quality educational services to students from pre-school through high school.
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For more than a century and a half, AIDB has been investing in the lives of thousands of infants, toddlers, children, adults and seniors who are challenged by hearing and vision loss. AIDB has five campuses and eight regional centers throughout Alabama.
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Each transparent block in this set contains different types of beads so each one makes a different sound which is great for kids learning to play with auditory cues. For children with usable vision, the bright colors are very attractive plus these blocks look great on a light table!
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A parent's perspective about raising a visually impaired child with Ocular Albinism. Journey through diagnosis, appointments, vision therapy sessions and more.
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Wikki Stix are an easy way to create tactile graphics, assist with O & M training, map concepts, music lessons, daily living skills and much more. Since they adhere to almost any smooth surface with just fingertip pressure, they are easy to use to provide a raised line effect.
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Skylar Covich has a BS from St. Mary's College of California and a Master's of Political Science from UCSB. Skylar is now a PhD Student at the University of California Santa Barbara. This Clip is Skylar making a presentation introduction at the Political Science Association Conference at The Palmer House in Chicago on April 12, 2012 using his Braille Note.
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The MIRA Foundation is totally dedicated to helping disabled individuals by teaming them with dogs bred and fully trained to respond to their adaptation and rehabilitation needs. They also offer a program for children 11 years and older. They are one of the only guide dog agency matching such young children with dogs.
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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. Very nice!
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Jungle Jive is a pretty simple game that gets your child up and moving. Each card depicts a different position (some harder to hold than others, there are 3 levels of difficulty) and each player has to mimic the position shown on their card while holding on to an electronic egg. The object is to hold the egg steady and not tip it - or it will laugh at you!
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Here's a fun sensory activity that you can play any time of year, but would be especially fun at Easter time: Sound Eggs! Fill each egg with a different object to make different sounds when you shake them. Fill your eggs in pairs so you can play a matching game!
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These unique cards make the alphabet accessible to ALL children, especially those with sensory disabilities. Each of the 26 ABC cards is tactile and includes a word in both Sign Language and Braille, many also have a Scratch n' Sniff feature!
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Paths to Literacy is an online hub for information related to literacy for students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities or deafblindness. It includes original content, as well as links to other sites and resources available on the web.
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PlayAbility Toys creates toys designed specifically for children with visual impairments, hearing impairments, cognitive challenges and other challenges. PlayAbility Toys says that they make "special toys for special kids." From tactile puzzles to big balls with grips that make a cool sound, these guys carry it all. And the best part is they are affordable!
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The American Sign Language Browser allows you to choose any word starting with any letter and watch a short Quick Time video demonstration of that word being signed.
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The Forever Fix is a new book about Corey Haas, a little boy born blind with LCA. The book recounts his experiences with genetic therapy and how the therapy was able to restore his sight.
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Hatchbacks are shoes designed specifically for children wearing AFO's, DAFO's, and orthotics. The shoes are easy to put on and easy to keep on, but most importantly they look really nice!
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Dreaming Fingers is a French organisation set up by parents and teachers that specialises in Tactile Illustrated books. They produce some lovely books which can be adapted to any language.
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From the creators of the first app for kids with CVI, Tap-n-See Zoo, comes the Little Bear Sees blog! Here you'll find all sorts of fun ideas for activities and toys for children and babies with CVI, from lights and switches to (my favorite) a trip to the aquarium!
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This site has some lovely tactile books suitable for young children. They include braille in a language of your choice very accessible and interactive tactile images.
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This simple ball is squishy and rubbery and makes a neat noise when you shake it. Great for helping with tactile defensiveness. If your child has light perception, you can get one with a light inside that makes it glow.
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