Consult

All of the pages within the Consult section are open access for easy sharing with team members outside the vision field. I hope you find these resources useful.

Unique Visual Needs
Collaboration

• Role of Classroom Teacher  
• Collaboration Strategies
• Collaborative Teaming
• ​Simulation Activities 
• Early Interventions Services​​​

​Instructional Adaptations

• Guiding Principles
• Daily Schedule
• Classroom Jobs
• Movies & Assemblies
• Board Work (Chalk, White, etc.)
• ​Lectures & Instruction 
• Morning Meeting
• ​Social Etiquette
• Peer Interaction Tips

​Environmental Adaptations

• School Campus Adaptations
• ​Playground Adaptations 
• Classroom Design Tips
• ​​Adjust Lighting  
• ​​​Label Classroom​

​Material Adaptations

• Accessible Educational Materials
• ​Photocopying
• Font Legibility
• Increase Contrast
• Pictures & Worksheets 
• ​Large Print
• Age Appropriate Materials

Curriculum Adaptations

• Language Arts
  • ​Select Reading Materials
  • Read Aloud
  • Tactile Books & Book Bags
  • Supporting Emergent Literacy
  • Apps for Early Learning
  • Read to Me Story Apps
• ​Math Adaptations
• ​Science Adaptations 
• Social Studies Adaptations
• PE Adaptations
• Music
• Art Adaptations
• Art Materials
• ​​​Block Play 
• ​Dramatic Play ​

Alternative Communication

• Individual Schedules
• Transition Between Activities
• Arrival & Departure Routines
• Anticipation Schedules
• Cues and Prompts
• Using Routines
• Switch Access
• Role Enrichment

​Support Sensory Needs

• Sensory Input
• Sensory Areas & Rooms
• DIY Vision Materials for Complex Needs
• ​Lightbox Use
• Encourage Use of Vision
• Sensory Table
• DIY Tactile Materials

Family Resources

• ​US Government Agencies
• ​State SpEd Agencies ​
• ​​​​​Online Family Resources
• Support Networks
• ​​Financial Assistance
• ​​​Parent Resource Books 
• Grief and Suffering 
• VI Consumer Organizations
• Summer Reading (braille)
• Obtaining Braille Books
• Toy Selection
• Obtaining an iPad
• Apps for VI

History of VI

• Timeline of Visual Impairments
• Biblical Passages on Blindness 
• ​Notable People 
• Helen Keller
• ​History of Braillewriters  
• APH Museu