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Transcribe Playing Cards

Students who are blind or visually impaired will typically need adaptations to access printed information that will allow the student to access all areas of the curriculum. It is the role of the Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI) to determine the adaptations that the student needs. Material adaptation needs will vary, depending on the degree of functional vision, effects of additional disabilities, and the task to be done. 
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An UNO card in a Perkins braille writer (3 yellow)
By: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com
​January 30, 2019

Playing cards is a great leisure time activity and it can also help a student practice math and logic skills! Adapted card games can be used by peer buddy groups and can also be sent home as a fun way for families to encourage braille reading skills at home!
There is no hard fast rule on how to braille the cards, so adapt to your student's preferences. That being said, the braille is usually placed on the top right corner of the front of the card about 1/4" from the edge. 

Standard Deck of Playing Cards

If transcribing a standard deck of cards, use 2 braille cells. It is not necessary to include the number sign. Simply indicate the number followed by the suit. Remember it is not possible to erase mistakes well on playing cards so be careful to not make any! I find it helpful to braille one suit at a time so I don't get confused! Use the following guidelines and remember to flip the card 180 degrees and braille that side too so the student can read the card no matter how it is oriented
Spades
as (ace of spades)
bs (2 of spades)
cs (3 of spades)
ds (4 of spades)
es (5 of spades)
fs (6 of spades)
gs (7 of spades)
hs (8 of spades)
is (9 of spades)
xs (x for 10 OR use 3 cells and use ajs if the x will confuse the student)
js (jack of spades)
qs (queen of spades)
ks (king of spades)
​
Hearts

ah (ace of hearts)
bh (2 of hearts)
ch (3 of hearts)
dh (4 of hearts)
eh (5 of hearts)
fh (6 of hearts)
gh (7 of hearts)
hh (8 of hearts)
ih (9 of hearts)
xh (x for 10 OR use 3 cells and use ajh if the x will confuse the student)
jh (jack of hearts)
qh (queen of hearts)
kh (king of hearts)
Diamonds
ad (ace of diamonds)

bd (2 of diamonds)
cd (3 of diamonds)
dd (4 of diamonds)
ed (5 of diamonds)
fd (6 of diamonds)
gd (7 of diamonds)
hd (8 of diamonds)
id (9 of diamonds)
xd (x for 10 OR use 3 cells and use ajd if the x will confuse the student)
jd (jack of diamonds)
qd (queen of diamonds)
kd (king of diamonds)
​
​Clubs
ac (ace of clubs)

bc (2 of clubs)
cc (3 of clubs)
dc (4 of clubs)
ec (5 of clubs)
fc (6 of clubs)
gc (7 of clubs)
hc (8 of clubs)
ic (9 of clubs)
xc (x for 10 OR use 3 cells and use ajc if the x will confuse the student)
jc (jack of clubs)
qc (queen of clubs)
kc (king of clubs)
joker = jo

UNO Playing Cards

As with transcribing a standard deck, use either 2-3 cells and don't include the number sign. Transcribe the top right corner and flip the card 180 degrees and braille the corner so the student can read the card no matter how the card is oriented. I find it helpful to braille one color at a time so I don't get confused! Braille the number or direction first followed by the color as follows:
Red
jr (0 red)
ar (1 red)
br (2 red)
cr (3 red)
dr (4 red)
er (5 red)
fr (6 red)
gr (7 red)
hr (8 red)
ir (9 red)
dbr (draw 2 red)
sr (skip red)
rr (reverse red)
Blue
jb (0 blue)
ab (1 blue)
bb (2 blue)
cb (3 blue)
db (4 blue)
eb (5 blue)
fb (6 blue)
gb (7 blue)
hb (8 blue)
ib (9 blue)
dbb (draw 2 blue)
sb (skip blue)
rb (reverse blue)
Yellow
jy (0 yellow)
ay (1 yellow)
by (2 yellow)
cy (3 yellow)
dy (4 yellow)
ey (5 yellow)
fy (6 yellow)
gy (7 yellow)
hy (8 yellow)
iy (9 yellow)
dby (draw 2 yellow)
sy (skip yellow)
ry (reverse yellow)
Green
jg (0 green)
ag (1 green)
bg (2 green)
cg (3 green)
dg (4 green)
eg (5 green)
fg (6 green)
gg (7 green)
hg (8 green)
ig (9 green)
dbg (draw 2 green)
sg (skip green)
rg (reverse green)
Wild Cards:
wi (wild)
wdd (wild draw four)

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

The TVI’s Guide to Teaching the ECC is a digital pdf available for download. It is designed specifically for fellow itinerant Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI’s), and 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. 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.



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Visual Efficiency & Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheets: TVI's Guide to the ECC Grab and Go Supplements

The Near Magnifier Fluency Worksheets is a Grab and Go supplement to the TVI's Guide to Teaching the ECC. 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 companion 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.  



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Thematic Keyboarding & Braille Fluency and Maintenance Worksheets: A TVI’s Guide to Teaching the ECC Grab & go Supplement

The Thematic Keyboarding & Braille Fluency and Maintenance Grab and Go ECC worksheet packet is a print on demand workbook that contains worksheets in print and simulated braille to use for data collection. Present the student with a hard braille copy and use the worksheets to document accuracy and fluency in reading braille. As a companion to the TVI’s Guide to the ECC, the worksheets correspond to the ECC Thematic activities presented in the curriculum guide. These word lists and sentences will help the student refine their keyboarding or braille reading skills while bridging ECC concepts presented in the thematic units. Although the lists and passages can be produced using a manual braillewriter, you may also copy and paste the passages into any braille translation software for quick production on an embosser. They may also be entered into a typing program such as APH’s Talking Typer to build keyboarding fluency.



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The Thematic Vocabulary Cards and Checklists Grab and Go ECC supplement is a 446 page pdf downloadable print on demand workbook that includes 2940 vocabulary card on 3 1/2" x 2" templates divided by each of the 32 Thematic Units along with a checklist of each unit words in print and simulated braille. As a companion to the TVI's Guide to the ECC, the vocabulary cards correspond to the ECC Thematic activities presented in the curriculum guide. 



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Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments can have a extremely varied caseloads. It is possible to go several years without having a student on your caseload who requires braille instruction. Like other skills, if you do not practice your braille regularly, it is easy to lose those skills. Use these checklists and cards to maintain your braille skills. Fold the checklist along the line dividing the print from the braille. Choose to either read the print and produce the word in braille using a braillewriter or read the simulated braille and decode it. Finally, these vocabulary cards and checklists may be used with family members or peers who are interested in learning and practicing the braille code.



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      • Vision Therapy Controversy
      • When Student Doesn't Qualify
    • Vision Exams >
      • Medical Professionals
      • Vision Tests & Tools
      • Visual Acuity
      • Lenses
      • Visual Fields
      • Structure & Function of the Eye
      • Common Vocabulary
      • Common Visual Impairments
      • Cortical Visual Impairments
      • Convergence Insufficiency (CI)
      • Deaf-Blind
    • FVE LMA >
      • What is the FVE
      • Interpret the Eye Report
      • Environmental Observations
      • FVE Observations
      • Interviews
      • Assessment Kit Materials
      • Oculomotor Skills
      • Near Visual Acuities
      • Print Comparisons
      • Distance Acuity
      • Test Visual Fields
      • Vision Skills
      • Learning Media Assessment
      • Reading Rates
      • Writing the FVE Report
    • Other Evaluations >
      • Clinical Low Vision Evaluation
      • Assistive Technology Assessment
      • Orientation & Mobility Evaluation
      • Educational Assessments
    • Psychological Impact Vision Loss
    • IEPs >
      • ECC Annual Needs
      • Writing SMART Goals
      • Blooms Taxonomy
      • Accommodations & Modifications
      • Service Delivery Models
      • Least Restrictive Environment
      • Student Led IEPs
    • Goal Bank >
      • Compensatory Goals
      • Sensory Efficiency Goals
      • Assistive Technology Goals
      • Social Skills Goals
      • Independent Living Goals
      • Recreation & Leisure Goals
      • Self Determination Goals
      • Career & Vocational Goals
    • Unique Visual Needs
    • 504 Plans
    • Transition Plans
  • Adaptations
    • Accessible Educational Materials >
      • Large Print
      • Braille Code
    • Assistive Tech >
      • Overview of Assistive Technology
      • VI AT >
        • Non-Optical Low Vision Devices
        • Low/Medium Tech Devices for Tactual Learners
        • Optical Devices for Near
        • Optical Devices for Distance
        • Video Magnifiers
        • Screen Enlargement & Readers
        • Braille Technology
        • Tactile Graphics Technology
        • Auditory Access Devices
      • Braillewriter Repair
      • Apps for VI >
        • Note Taking Apps
        • Apps for Accessing Books
        • Identification Apps
        • Navigation & Location Apps
        • Braille Apps
        • Magnifier Apps
        • Sound Making Apps
        • Cause & Effect Apps
        • Vision Skills Apps
        • Apps for Early Learning
        • Read to Me Story Apps
        • Apps for Communication
        • Android Apps for VI
    • Instructional Adaptations >
      • Movies & Assemblies
      • Lectures & Instruction
      • Board Work (Chalk, Interactive, White)
    • Material Adaptations >
      • Photocopying
      • Font Legibility
      • Increase Contrast
      • Pictures and Worksheets
      • Tactile Graphics Guidelines
      • Creating Tactile Graphics
      • Transcribe Playing Cards
    • Environmental Adaptations >
      • Home Adaptations
      • School Campus Adaptations
      • Classroom Design Tips
      • Labeling System
      • Adjust Lighting
      • Playground Adaptations
    • Early Childhood >
      • Daily Schedule
      • Morning Meeting
      • Weather Check
      • Dramatic Play
      • Blocks
    • Electives Adaptations >
      • Art
      • Art Materials
      • Music
      • Music & Movement
      • Dance
      • P.E. Adaptations
      • P.E. Resources
      • Home Economics
    • Math Adaptations >
      • Numbers & Counting
      • Algebra
      • Geometry & Spatial Sense
      • Measurement & Data
    • Literacy Adaptations >
      • Early Literacy Experiences
      • Create Tactual Books
      • Reading Instruction
      • Reading Efficiency
    • Science Adaptations >
      • Science Materials
    • Social Studies Adaptations >
      • Social Studies Materials
  • Instruction
    • Instructional Strategies >
      • Teaching in Thematic Units
      • iPads as Instructional Tools
      • ECC Song Playlists
    • Early Intervention >
      • Early Intervention Strategies
      • Learn to Play
      • Impact on Development & Learning
      • Language Development
    • Teaching Students with MD >
      • Functional Skills
      • Teacher Made Materials for Students with MD
      • Individual Schedules & Communication Cards
      • Transition Between Activities
      • Lightbox Use
      • Encourage Use of Vision in Students with MD
      • Sensory Input
      • Sensory Areas & Rooms
      • Sensory Activities for Students with MD
      • Sensory Table
      • Classroom Jobs
    • Compensatory >
      • Guiding Principles of Concept Development
      • Community Based Experiences
      • Concepts to Teach
      • Organization & Study Skills
      • Cranmer Abacus Instruction
      • Time Management
    • Communication Modes >
      • Braille Instruction
      • Braille Instruction Materials
      • Writing Braille
      • Signature & Handwriting Instruction
      • Nemeth Braille Code
      • Tactile Graphics Instruction
    • AT Instruction >
      • Making the iOS Device Accessible
      • Video Magnifier Instruction
      • Notetaker Instruction
      • Accessing Audio Books
      • Navigate Computer without a Mouse
      • Word Processing and Shortcuts
      • Keyboarding Instruction
    • Sensory Efficiency >
      • Visual Efficiency Skills
      • Visual Attend and Scan Activities
      • Visual Tracking Activities
      • Visual Discrimination Activities
      • Visual Motor Activities
      • Optical Device Use
      • Tactual Readiness
      • Developing Skillful Hands
      • Auditory Readiness
      • Listening Skills Instruction
    • Independent Living >
      • Responsibility & Independence
      • Mealtime Independence
      • Eating Adaptations
      • Food Preparation
      • Recipe Activities
      • Hygiene & Grooming
      • Medications
      • Dressing & Clothing Management
      • Money
      • Housekeeping Instruction
    • Orientation & Mobility >
      • Proper Guide Techniques
      • Orienting Student to Environment
      • Mobility Skills
      • Travel
      • Dog Guides
    • Social Skills >
      • Non-Verbal Communication
      • Social Interactions
      • Self Concept
      • Icebreakers & Mixers
    • Career Education >
      • Career & Vocational
      • Prepare for College & Career
      • Financial Assistance
    • Recreation & Leisure
    • Self Determination