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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
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
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
ASL
Page from the illustrated story, "Adventures with Darian: A Pirate at (Sea) See," displaying a scene with a girl and a pirate boy examining the contents of a treasure chest. Another picture shows the pirate boy looking warily at a treasure map. Text reads, “Rummaging in his loot, he got out a rag. Carefully he tied it around his head, attached a seashell, and covered his eye. ‘Great idea, Cap’n!’ said Victor the Vicious. Darien’s prosthetic eye was safe. But more disasters came as he tried to read the treasure maps.”
18 minutes
Grade Level: Ps - 2
Cam, a young blind boy, wears a green jacket and sits in front of a grand piano in his house. He places his hands gracefully on the keys as he plays the piano.
Against the Odds
Episode 13
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Mary, a blind woman, swims the butterfly stroke in an Olympic-sized pool. Her arms are out like big wings and her head is lifted out of the water. She wears black goggles and a black swimmer's cap as water splashes up around her.
Against the Odds
Episode 2
28 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Young girl in a white shirt sits behind a large drum with her hands on it. There are other drums and instruments nearby in what appears to be a music classroom. Caption. She is the only student at her school with severe visual impairment.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 9
58 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
ASL
Wide shot looking down a New York City street at dusk. Caption. My ears are my eyes.
34 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Closeup of a woman's hands reading braille.
8 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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
Woman in an office setting stands in front of camera, looking slightly down. Caption. And distributed them to blind people in the community.
Curiosity Quest
Season 6 / Ep 8
26 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Two women walking. Both wear sunglasses, one walks with a dog in a guide harness. Caption: I got a guide dog about 12 years ago.
Curiosity Quest
Season 4 / Ep 6
25 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Overhead view of 2 people in long pants looking toward a brown and beige dog seated on the floor in front of them. Caption. I like her because she's docile.
Career Opportunities for Young People
Episode 1
12 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Classroom with children seated at desks. Caption. Jessica as narrator. I work so hard so I can do the same stuff they do.
14 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Boy sits and looks at an open book in a library setting. Another boy leans over him and a woman stands behind him. A girl sits next to him with an open book as she looks toward him. Caption. Yeah, dude. Hannah confused me.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 6
2 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 8
Title text reads, “Surfing,” against a yellow background.
27 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two people looking up at a kite flying in the sky. Caption: {Rory) I've been flying the kite with James five or six times now,
24 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Girl and boy sit at a desk across from 1 another and play Connect 4. Caption. You see what she's doin'? What do you need to block her?
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 1
5 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Illustration of a sphere with an uneven surface. Caption: Scientists strip away the virus's harmful genes
17 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A D N A strand labeled, mutación, has its section highlighted and labeled, proteina Spanish Caption: El principio de la terapia genica.
17 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Framed image of a woman smiling at camera in an outdoor setting. Title card identifies her as Crystal Melero, Statewide Services Coordinator for Children Who are Blind or Have Low Vision. Text nearby, "Soft Skills and Hard Skills."
Getting a Job! for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired
Episode 22
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Tan brick building with grass, a tree, and a sign indicating it's a school for the blind and visually impaired. Text reads, "Photo courtesy of S, D, S, B, V, I."
6 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a small group of children surrounding a pyramid of blue plastic cups. They hold strings that are wrapped around the cups. Caption. Forward, forward, forward.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 4
5 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 6
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
Black and white frame of slave men, women and children walking on a dirt path. Caption. To lead nearly 300 slaves to freedom.
10 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Man walks a dog on a sidewalk. Caption. And then he goes two blocks south and turns.
22 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Still image from: Heart of a Champion: Vision Quest
Heart of a Champion
Season 1 / Ep 8
19 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Helen Keller for Kids
7 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
A chubby baby wearing a blue long sleeved shirt and white cap lays on a white blanket. Caption. The Horstmeyer's only child requires round the clock care.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 8
58 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
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
Blurry city in background. Hearing.
Human + The Future of Our Senses
Episode 1
48 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blurry city in background. Orchestra of the senses.
Human + The Future of Our Senses
Episode 2
48 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blurry city in background. Sight.
Human + The Future of Our Senses
Episode 3
48 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
A comparison of passive echolocation used in vehicles and active echolocation in dolphins.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 18
16 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of toddler laying on bed looking at camera with another toddler looking at a man behind him.
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Young man wearing business attire speaks directly to camera. Caption. Images into spoken words.
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: All
Still image from: Make48: Gym-tastic / Kansas School for the Blind--Kansas City, KS (Part 1)
Make48
Season 8 / Ep 5
24 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Make48: Gym-tastic / Kansas School for the Blind--Kansas City, KS (Part 2)
Make48
Season 8 / Ep 6
24 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Make48: Kansas City, KS / Kansas State School for the Blind 2022
Make48
Season 6 / Ep 7
26 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Make48: Kansas City, KS / Kansas State School for the Blind 2023
Make48
Season 7 / Ep 1
24 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Recently Added
Still image from: Make48: Season 8 National Competition -- Episode 1
Make48
Season 8 / Ep 13
25 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Recently Added
Still image from: Make48: Season 8 National Competition -- Episode 2
Make48
Season 8 / Ep 14
24 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Still image from: Meet the Helpers: How Voting Works for Kids
Meet the Helpers
Episode
2 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Womans wearing blue jeans and a gray top uses a white cane to walk down a tree-lined dirt path towards the camera.
16 minutes
Grade Level: 7 - 12
3 teenagers in formal attire stand next to 1 another. A smiling boy in center wraps his arm around a smiling girl to his right. Caption. It's about dressing for success.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 2
5 minutes
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Clay animation of a young boy with brown hair and a green shirt holding onto a yellow handrail. Spanish caption. El cierra y abre sus ojos.
My Family (Spanish)
Episode 1
1 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
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
Low shot of a person holding a baby resting in a handheld carrier. Caption. Jen as narrator. Look at who is coming home for the first time!
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 7
5 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Group of teenagers sit in a row facing a woman with a guitar. Caption. Tell me what you think the topic of the song is.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 7
4 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Instructional video. Red-headed man wearing glasses and a green hoodie stands in front of a white wall, where a white cane leans against it.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 3
6 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Screenshot. Apple iOS "Display and Text Size" section under the "Accessibility" section of its Settings panel. The "Reduce Transparency" setting is toggled to the on position.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 12
7 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Man stands on a paved driveway in front of a house and demonstrates the "touch and slide technique," holding a white cane in front of him.
Orientation & Mobility Skill Refresher Series
Episode 2
4 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Man wearing a black winter coat and hat stands in the snow while holding up a white cane with a special attachment at the end.
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of a young girl with blonde hair and bangs wearing a pink shirt while looking down. She has a few freckles on her nose.
Our Special Life
Episode 2
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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
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
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
Young woman is surrounded by people, some of whom reach toward her with concern. Caption. Woman as narrator. What's going on? What happened?
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 5
5 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 9
Young woman with white cane walks on the sidewalk past a grassy field lined with trees. Title card reads, "Rewind button." Caption. Female as narrator. Have you ever just wanted a rewind button?
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 3
4 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Man in suit, tie and Santa hat standing next to man dressed as Santa.
3 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
People in an operating theater with a patient on the table. Caption: is implanted surgically and stimulates nerves
Science Nation
Episode 183
5 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Graphic of spherical object with multiple web-like tubular connections. Caption: They can't see any information in their visual world.
Science Nation
Episode 96
2 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man's hand holding a cup with orange object. Caption. Is too flat, and/or the eyeball itself is too short.
27 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman sits at a desk and looks down at a few papers while a girl in glasses sits across from her. Caption. Today we're going to talk about problems.
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 8
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Color illustration of a person looking up at a tall tree. Caption. There were majestic trees to give shade.
Short Stories For Children
Episode 3
13 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Still image from: Sight-Reading Braille: Contracted Braille Test (Contracted Braille or Grade 2)
Sight-Reading Braille
Episode
Grade Level: All
Dr. Phil speaks to camera. Caption. Of the world's only deaf-blind triplets.
51 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 12
Man and woman sit on a couch with big red patterned pillows. The man holds a smiling toddler in a bright yellow shirt between his legs. Caption. The Smith-Levins remain positive about Max's future.
Raising a Visually Impaired Child: Personal Stories From Parents, Siblings, and Children With Visual Impairments
Episode 6
6 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Sol
11 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
3 boys sit around a table. 2 have their hands raised. They look toward a woman sitting across from them with her back to camera. Caption. All right, who wants to start?
Social Skills Cinema
Episode 9
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
ASL
Still image from: The Cane Kids
8 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 4
ASL
Still image from: The Day the Clouds Went Away
12 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 5
Wide shot looking down a busy urban street with 4 lanes in both directions, buzzing with cars and pedestrians. Street leads to a towering modern building in the distance.
1 hours 9 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Frame shows 2 teenagers and 2 adults around a table with artistic streams of light illuminating the scene. Spanish caption. Por eso es que esta fotografía es.
1 hours 9 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Teenage boy looks into an eye exam machine while the hand of a person off camera touches a button on a small screen next to a computer. Caption. It is caused by a change, or a mutation, in a gene.
8 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a hand adjusting a lens. Title card reads, "Retinitis Pigementaria." Spanish caption. Narradora. R, P es la abreviatura para retinitis pigmentaria.
8 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man wearing a business suit presents an architectural rendering of an exterior building to a man seated at a conference table. Caption. It's called Emily's Home.
The Ultimate Gift/The Ultimate Life
Episode 1
1 hours 57 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Rear view shot of a woman seated at a desk looking at a computer. She appears to be in the midst of a video call with a woman in medical scrubs standing in front of floral wallpaper. Caption. Miss Drummond, it's so nice to hear back from you.
The Ultimate Gift/The Ultimate Life
Episode 2
1 hours 48 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Aerial view of green and brown fields divided into sections with building complexes to the sides.
19 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person in a kitchen preparing a slice of buttered toast. Caption. Could you check? Is the butter everywhere?
52 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Touching the Sun With Solar Stones
2 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Girl reaches out with both hands to touch a boy's face, white cane leaning against her shoulder. Caption. You have a nice face, but sad.
42 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Senior man wearing a baseball cap and soccer jersey looks off camera, gesturing with his hands. Spanish caption. Y cuando uno es niño es muy inquieto me esto.
12 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 11
Man using a wheelchair, waiting on a sidewalk. A person stands nearby. Caption. I remember them well some years ago.
26 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of a human eye. Caption: of specialized cells called receptors
19 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman wearing dark sunglasses. Caption: Never be afraid to pursue your dreams,
Women@NASA
Episode 1
3 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Boy resembling Louis Braille with his eyes closed and hands on table. 1 hand holds a stylus. Caption. Louis, you've been work on that for days.
35 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Zoocios: My Guide and My Best Friend (Spanish)
Zoocios (Spanish)
Episode 8
27 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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