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An adult holds a child's hand while they run together on a concrete pad as other children look on. Caption. Never, ever make a excuse that you can't do something.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 4
5 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

Kayleigh Joyner, Paxton Franke, Tyler Juranek, who are visually impaired, discuss their feelings and lessons they have learned. The discussion also focuses on how they want others to treat them, as well as their future hopes, plans, and dreams. Pa...Read More

Young, blonde girl in a blue graphic tee-shirt sits and talks in front of a dark green curtain. Caption. I'll support whatever decisions he makes.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 1
4 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

Matt Bushland and Callie Smith-Cobb, who are sighted, talk about what it is like to have a sibling with a vision impairment. Part of a series of interviews with individuals with visual impairments and their family members.

Man in a black shirt holds a baby in a light pink frilly dress and headband. 2 young girls look at the baby as their mother looks on from behind. Caption. I look at her as, here's my youngest daughter.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 5
5 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

The Bushland Family talks about raising Mary Rose, age 2, who is living with a rare form of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). LCA is a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or within the first few months of life. It affects the retina...Read More

Teenage boy wears a red tee-shirt, blue shorts and baseball cap, tall red-striped socks, and baseball cleats. He kneels with a padded knee on a grassy baseball field as he prepares to throw a yellow softball. Caption. Don't let anyone else tell you what your child can or cannot do.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 3
5 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

Steve and Karen Trischler along with Kim Cunningham discuss raising a child with a vision impairment. Part of a series of interviews with individuals with visual impairments and their family members.

Side view of a young girl with long brown hair sitting in a white wooden chair with a pink pillow behind her at a white desk as she uses a gray Perkins Brailler. Caption. She is a top student with a wildly vivid imagination.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 2
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

Eleven year old Parker Moore has bilateral Optic NerveHypoplasia, but this doesn’t keep her from playing the violin or performing in school plays. She describes how blindness affects her life and also has advice for parents who are raising childre...Read More

Senior man lays down on a couch with a woman standing behind him and touching his shoulders in an indoor space. Caption. Come on, I wanna dance!
52 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12

Go behind the scenes as a company of non-professional actors rehearse "Dancing to Beethoven," a play about blind characters negotiating their way through the emotional and physical maze of life without sight. Most of the performers have no problem...Read More

Red-headed man looks toward us while speaking and standing in front of a white wall, where a white cane leans against it.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 1
1 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This series will provide refresher videos on many different orientation and mobility (O&M) skills. The goal of this series is to provide O&M students a way to review previously learned skills. These videos are not meant to replace working directly...Read More

Red-headed man uses both hands to hold a white cane up in front of his face as he shows us the cane's black handle grip.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 4
1 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

Certified Orientation and Mobility instructor Mike Mulligan provides a quick refresher on the parts of a folding white cane. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series."

Close-up of a person holding white and red adjustable walking stick that has been folded into sections.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 5
1 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This video demonstrates for viewers how to easily and safely unfold a folding white cane. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series."

Man holds up two sections of a partially folded white cane as he demonstrates how to fold it up.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 6
2 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

In this video, certified Orientation and Mobility Instructor Mike Mulligan discusses how to fold a folding white cane. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series."

Standing close to us, a man grips the handle of a white cane with one hand as his other hand loosely holds the elastic cord.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 7
2 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This video provides a short demonstration of the index finger grasp by certified Orientation and Mobility Instructor Mike Mulligan. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series."

Red-headed man holds up a rigid white cane with one hand, using the other hand to gesture as he speaks to us.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 8
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

The standard cane consists of three parts: the grip, the shaft, and the tip. The entire cane is designed to maximize tactile and auditory input from the environment. Certified Orientation and Mobility Instructor Mike Mulligan describes each part o...Read More

Red-headed man stands in front of a white wall, looking towards us as he speaks and gestures with his hand.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 9
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

In this video, Mike Mulligan, a certified Orientation & Mobility Instructor, provides helpful shopping tips for someone who is blind or visually impaired. This is just one of many ways a person can safely navigate a shop. Part of the "Orientation ...Read More

First-person perspective looking down as a man demonstrates how to hold a white cane loosely like it's a pencil, with the handle between his thumb and index finger.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 10
1 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This video provides a short demonstration on how to hold a white cane using the pencil grasp. The pencil grasp is a useful way to hold a white cane in certain situations and an important skill to have in one's toolbox. Part of the "Orientation & M...Read More

First-person perspective looking down as a man holds a white cane with his thumb pointed down on the handle's flat side and his other fingers wrapped around the handle grip.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 11
1 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This video provides a short demonstration on how to hold a white cane using the thumb grasp. This grip is one of three main ways of holding a white cane for someone who is blind or visually impaired. Part of the "Orientation & Mobility Skill Refre...Read More

Closeup of a woman's hands reading braille.
8 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

In this video, the braille instructor at the North Dakota School for the Blind shares her tracking techniques for beginning braille readers. This video is also helpful for anyone needing a refresher in best practices.

Senior woman wearing a white sweater and sunglasses demonstrates how to load paper into a blue Perkins Brailler.
5 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This video explains how to load paper into a Perkins Brailler. It is especially helpful to parents and teachers of braille writers who may not be familiar with how a brailler works.

White C, G, I puppy smiles as it walks across a fenced walkway. A park and some construction barriers appear in the background.
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12

This is a heartwarming tale about a small dog with a big dream to become an elite guide dog. Follow Pip as she attends training sessions and overcomes many obstacles to reach her dream.

Smiling young woman looks off camera. Text over image reads, "Bingo!" with a check mark below. Caption. Selena comes in with a smile.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 10
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12

Students participated in activities to increase courteous behavior, explored how to problem-solve, and make good decisions in work and social settings. "No Second Chances to Make a Good First Impression" enhanced social skill concepts through role...Read More

2 men in suits smile at each other and shake hands, 1 wears a white face mask over his eyes. Caption. This audio description has really been wonderful.
14 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12

Gregory Frazier was a key figure in the early development of audio description for persons with a visual impairment. Watch this historical treasure, introduced by Margaret Hardy, and learn from Emmy Award winner Frazier, a pioneer in the field.

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