82 media results found for 'deaf blind'
Soliz and Camila are brother and sister. They have Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. In the summer of 2015, their family took a road trip from their home in Arizona to California, where they went camping with extended family. Their parents want to immerse...Read More
Description is the verbal depiction of key visual elements in media and live productions. Also known as "audio description" or "video description," the description of media involves the interspersion of these depictions with the program's original...Read More
Technology and science are working to restore, replace, and supercharge the powerful human sense of hearing. Meet a man who is blind whose hearing is so acute that he can navigate a bicycle by the sound of the echo of a click. This episode also hi...Read More
Gina Gilmore, a first grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy math think-alouds. This strategy provides students with the skills to solve math problems and explain how they arrived at their answer. Part ...Read More
Marissa Harrer, a second grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy number talks. The application of this strategy provides students with the skills to be able to explain various math processes. Part of the...Read More
Cally Traetto, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares strategies for increasing literacy in the different content areas. She aims to help students use ASL/English bilingual strategies to improve their literacy skills in...Read More
Jessica Stultz, a first grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the tool signed reading fluency rubric. This strategy is adapted from "Signed Reading Fluency Rubric for Deaf Children" created by Sandra Huston and Sus...Read More
Helen Keller's loss of vision and hearing in infancy made comprehension of the outside world next to impossible-or so it seemed. When teacher Anne Sullivan agreed to work with Keller, that world opened up, and they both learned essential life-alte...Read More

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing at 19 months old after an illness. This video provides an overview of the ...Read More
Debbi Penrose, a sixth grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy empowering students. By using this strategy, she hopes to provide students with the skills to articulate and express themselves throughout t...Read More
Mary Bilancio, a second grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy making words. The application of this strategy helps students increase their phonemic awareness. Part of the "FSDB Pineapple PD" series.
Debbi Penrose, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, discusses the concept of time related to earth science. She uses different strategies to help her students understand time and scale related to different geological time pe...Read More
Karen Newton, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, demonstrates the strategy shared inquiry. During shared inquiry exercises, students use higher-order thinking skills to have academic discussions about a given text. Part of...Read More
Jay Floresca, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the concept of differentiated centers. She explains how dividing students into groups provides time for individualized instruction. Part of the "FSDB Pineapple PD" se...Read More
Starting from the simple definitions of regular people about common words like rose, sky, usage, a deeper analysis is made about what significance is and how reality is satisfied with the sum of significances that surround us. Puns, regionalisms, ...Read More

Byron Bridges, the ASL/English Bilingual Coordinator at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, discusses ASL mouth morphemes. The use of ASL mouth morphemes increases students' awareness of ASL adjectives and adverbs. They also help expand...Read More
Felix harasses a blind girl in his high school. Through a series of mysterious events, he finds himself blind and sent back to 1935, where he meets Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. Felix lives with them and learns about blindness, "seeing" with ...Read More
Every student deserves equal access to learning opportunities. Giving description and captioning options to students with broad differences in their ability to see and hear makes educational media accessible to them. Provides examples of descripti...Read More