150 media results found for 'blind'
Demonstrates that people with disabilities are basically no different from anyone else. When Catherine attends a friend's party, no one knows she's blind. As they discover the truth, some guests act differently around her. Catherine shows that ...Read More
Jessica had normal vision until the age of eight, and then, in a few short years, became legally blind. She contracted Stargardt's, an inherited form of macular degeneration, which usually appears between the ages of six and twenty and causes loss...Read More
This an archive video of the Video Description Research and Development Center webinar #2 - "Do It Yourself" Educational Description: Guidelines and Tools. The webinar occurred October 24, 2012. Topics in this webinar include: 1) An update of th...Read More
Learning to integrate listening skills in the classroom, community, and at home is critical for children with visual impairments. Emphasizes the steps in using listening skills by recalling what classmates have said. Students practice asking quest...Read More
Recognizing off-topic and on-topic conversational comments and questions are key areas for this social skills video lesson. Through the lesson's activities, students with visual impairments will become more familiar with how to build conversations...Read More
Students with visual impairments need many opportunities to learn how to read nonverbal gestures and tone of voice of peers and adults. This lesson emphasizes the importance of different sensory-learning channels in communication. While learning a...Read More
This module offers an overview of description and why it is essential to providing access for individuals who are blind or have low vision. The module reviews guidelines for description, discusses laws pertaining to description, and explains the u...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
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
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
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
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
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
Make48 hosted a competition at the Kansas State School for the Blind in Kansas City, KS. With access to expert tool technicians and high-tech equipment, competing teams will have the power to build almost anything. Part of the "Make48" series.
Make48 is a 48-hour competition where teams are presented with a challenge and tasked to build a physical prototype, create a sales sheet, produce a 1-minute marketing video, and pitch their big idea to a panel of judges. This fall, the competitio...Read More
With support from the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, psychologist Brad Duchaine and his team are studying the brains of 20 people with "face blindness." The team hopes to better understand ...Read More
