GRIEF & SUFFERING

By: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com

Learning your child has a visual impairment or is blind can cause feelings of grief and sadness. People cope differently but it is healthy to acknowledge your feelings and give yourself time to adjust to your new reality. Finding support from friends or families, or seeking resources from professionals or other parents who have had similar experiences can help as you work through your emotions.

FamilyConnect provides suggestions for parents dealing with emotional impact of learning your child is blind or visually impaired. Sensitive topics they cover include:

• Learning that your child is visually impaired
• Talking to family and friends
• Family relationships
• Stop & take a breath
• Equal time for all your children
• When an older sibling is visually impaired
• When people stare at a brother or sister

The following are resource books that on grief and suffering that may help you. If you have found other books helpful, please share them with me so I can include them here.

A Bend In The Road: Experiencing God When Your World Caves In

Jeremiah, David. A Bend In The Road: Experiencing God When Your World Caves In. Dr. David Jeremiah shares the comfort and hope of the Psalms and how these truths can guide believers through life's greatest challenges. He includes inspiring real-life stories to help and encourage people facing major obstacles in life.

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The Blessings of Brokenness

Stanley, Charles. The Blessings of Brokenness: Why God Allows Us to Go Through Hard Times. Dr. Stanley shares how God can help you when you experience circumstances so shattering you wonder how you can pick up the pieces. Through biblical insight, you can reassemble the shards of your life into a wholeness that only the broken can know.

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Finding God When You Need Him Most

Ingram, Chip. Finding God When You Need Him Most. Chip Ingram reveals how readers can meet God in the midst of their most difficult circumstances. The book will remind readers that the Lord is faithful to hear their heart's cry and will be there for them.

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On Grief and Grieving

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. On Grief and Grieving applies the stages discussed in on Death and Dying to the grieving process and weaves together theory, inspiration, and practical advice.

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Overcoming Emotions That Destroy

Ingram & Johnson. Overcoming Emotions That Destroy: Practical Help for Those Angry Feeling That Ruin Relationships Chip Ingram and Dr. Becca Johnson offer encouragement and advice on how to identify your own anger profile as either a spewer, leaker, or stuffer - and how to harness that anger so you can grow personally, relationally and spiritually.

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Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering

Keller, Timothy. Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering. This Christian book, focuses on why bad things including pain and suffering  happen and how we, as Christians, should respond to them.  

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When God Doesn't Make Sense

Dobson, James C. When God Doesn't Make Sense. Drawing on his long experience as a christian psychologist and family counselor, Dr. Dobson brings hope to those who have almost given up and are struggling with trials and heartaches they can't understand.

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Where Is God When It Hurts

Yancey, Philip. Where Is God When It Hurts? Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain and helps the reader understand why we suffer. It speaks to those for whom life sometimes just doesn't make sense.

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TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC: An Activities Based Curriculum for Teaching Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired

$50.00

Written specifically for fellow itinerant Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI’s), this book consists of over 400 activities and topic areas of discussion for instructing students in the Expanded Core Curriculum. The activities are age-neutral and multi-sensory and therefore can meet the needs of the broad range of students served on an itinerant caseload serving. The activities can be individualized to the students various learning modalities and scaffold in order to challenge students but ensure success. Select those activities that align with the student’s learning objects based on the student’s unique visual needs and academic and developmental level.

The core activities listed in the Activity section can be adapted to each thematic unit. These include:

• Object Characteristic Activities
• Quantity & Number Concepts
• Time Concept Activities
• Environment & Job Awareness Activities
• Listening Skills Activities
• Reading Foundation Activities
• Reading Fluency Activities
• Braille Basics Activities
• Writing Activities
• Tactual Efficiency Activities
• Developing Skillful Hands Activities
• Visual Efficiency Activities
• Optical Device Instruction Activities
• Recipe Activities

In addition to the core activity areas, each of the 32 Thematic Units incorporates additional unique ECC concepts and skills providing you with a years’ worth of activities. These units are cyclical and can be used repeatedly to help students build on prior knowledge and develop a deeper understanding of concepts. Each unit includes suggestions for activity adaptation associated with the unit. These include lists of objects, possible community based experiences, environmental print, poems, children & young reader books, children's songs, pop culture songs, movies, and websites.

Unique Concepts within the Units include:

• Self Advocacy Activities (e.g. advocating for safe classroom, presenting to class on visual impairment, requesting help and more)
• Social Skills Activities (e.g. Being bullied or teased, giving and receiving compliments, body language, "I" messages when upset and more)
• Recreation & Leisure Activities (e.g. exploring interest areas, getting involved in clubs and sports, playing games, and more)
• O&M Support Activities (e.g. Suggestions for community based experiences, dog guide information, locations in the school, bioptics, ride sharing, traffic signs, and more)
• Independent Living Skill Activities (e.g. chores, being responsible, using tools, recipe suggestions, hygiene, staying healthy, labeling foods and products, and more)
• Sensory Efficiency Activities (e.g. unique sensory experiences related to the unit, unique optical device activities, and more)
• Compensatory Activities (e.g. organizing materials, study habits, and many unique concepts related to the unit)
• Career & Vocational Activities (e.g. job awareness, completing applications, job task suggestions, and more)

Although the intended audience of this resource is fellow Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, special education teachers may find these activities beneficial to the students in their classrooms as the activities are multisensory and include life skills and concepts needed by all students. This resource, however, is not intended to take the place of a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI). Readers are advised to consult their own TVI’s regarding instruction in the ECC and the unique visual needs of the student’s served in their programs.

Note: This curriculum is a digital pdf download. Once you make your purchase you will be directed to an order confirmation page where you will find the download link. This download will also be included on the receipt sent to the email address you provide. The pdf download can be found directly under the order number.

Each download is intended for single instructor use per copyright. Thank you for helping me preserve the content and not distributing copies to third parties.

Product details

Digital pdf download: 364 pages (11 pt font)

Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments

Author: Carmen Willings

Language: English

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Visual Efficiency & Magnifier Fluency Grab & Go ECC Supplements

$20.00

This workbook is a pdf download that can be printed on demand for use with students. It contains five different types of worksheets for developing visual motor skills and near magnifier fluency skills particularly with the use of a video magnifier. As a supplement to the TVI’s Guide to the ECC, the worksheets correspond to each of the 32 ECC Thematic units. The worksheets, along with a list of environmental print for each thematic unit, are designed to help students refine their visual motor skills while reinforcing ECC concepts presented in the thematic units.  

Visual Efficiency & Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheet Details:

Digital pdf download: 210 pages

Publisher: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments

Author: Carmen Willings

Language: English

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