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Reminder: Free Books from Seedlings: Braille Books For Children
Seedlings offers 5 free books a year for students and TVIs who qualify in the US.
Sensing and Learning (2023)
"The research-based strategies contained in this book provides TVIs with tools to conduct sensory efficiency and learning media assessments; address IEP areas such as instructional settings, accommodations, and goals; and provide highly effective instruction using a collaborative, consultation-service delivery model."
Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities (2016)
This book "helps educators unlock the learning potential of their students by providing key program strategies that can be directly applied to classroom learning routines."
I-M-ABLE: Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education (2016)
"I-M-ABLE, or the Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy , is an innovative, individualized, student-centered method for teaching braille and making it exciting for children who have difficulties learning braille."
Hold Everything! Twenty “Stay-Put” Play Spaces For Infants and Preschoolers with Sensory Impairments and Other Special Needs (2004)
Created by the Ohio Center for Deafblind Education, this booklet provides 20 initial ideas for developing “stay-put” play spaces for children with sensory impairments and other special needs.
Assessment of Biobehavioral States: Supporting Availability for Learning for Students with Multiple Disabilities including Deaf-Blindness & Profound Intellectual & Multiple Disabilities (2016)
Created by Chris Russel as part of the New York DeafBlind Collaborative, the Assessment of Biobehavioral States document helps teams identify strategies and biobehavioral states to support learning.
Tools to Address Assessment and Instruction for Students with the Most Significant Challenges (2022):
Complied by Kate Hurst as part of the Texas DeafBlind Outreach "this document is a compilation of a variety of articles, handouts, and forms that have been collected and used by staff with TSBVI Outreach Programs for a number of years and which are frequently requested."
Classroom Observation Instrument for Educational Environments Serving Students with Deaf-Blindness (2006)
This is a "research-based tool designed to help guide and inform educators’ decisions about their students with severe and profound disabilities including deafblindness. The COI is comprised of three main sections: a teacher interview, a review of the student’s cumulative folder, and an observation rubric.
Beyond Arm’s Reach: Enhancing Distance Vision (1992)
An oldie but a goodie, "This book is designed to enhance distance visual efficiency for children with low vision, and includes 4 chapters, with 64 sequential lessons." Note: Some lesson materials may need to be updated. - Available through Bookshare.
Look At Me: A Resource Manual for the Development of Residual Vision in Children with Multiple Disabilities (1982)
An oldie but a goodie, "Look At Me is a complete resource for educators working with visually/multiply handicapped as well as those having low vision as their only disability." Note: Some materials in the Vision Stimulation Activities (p. 75) may need to be updated. - Available through Bookshare.
