Monday, September 17, 2012

Must Have Educational Materials for the Elementary Blind Student!

Did you know that there are easy resources, academic sources and components that will guide your sightless undergraduate in creating excellent academic establishing business and blindness skills! Here are some suggestions to get you thinking about components and accommodations that works for your sightless undergraduate. These are some of my favorites...

Braille Classroom Calendars: The academic establishing schedule kit through United states Publishing Home is a wonderful double perspective (Braille/Print) schedule that is easily integrated into instructor instructed morning circle actions. This schedule teaches a wide range of principles such as recording of weather, ordering of figures, season, months and days of 7 days in large create and Braille structure.

Braille Table Calendars: These schedules are excellent desk-top undergraduate sources for university projects and house use. Braille schedule use develops responsive monitoring abilities and understanding of days of the 7 days, months and season. Consist of schedule use at house by brands birthdays, family vacations, holidays, university trips and upcoming fun events! This is a fantastic source for creating responsive abilities. You can use responsive indicators or sticky push facts for schedule marking!

Braille Wallet Folders: These sources can be used to shop undergraduate academic establishing projects, preparation projects, "materials to be transcribed", "transcribed materials" and assorted Braille components. Wallet files hold 11"X11 ½" Braille paper and come in a wide range of shades. This product can be color coded for each place of interest. Braille pocket files will provide an opportunity to create undergraduate business abilities.

Embossables are plastic sheets with sticky backing that can be embossed with Braille using a Perkin's Braille author. Embossables are excellent for fast academic establishing brands, brands of files and fast brands of elementary knowledge components.

Braille Marking is an opportunity to foster beginning knowledge abilities in the beginning education-pre-school establishing. Embossables or Braille brands can be used for responsive recognition of important products in the academic establishing setting such as the sightless past or present student's academic establishing cubby, seat, individualized containers or storage containers, Braille files, crayon shades, art containers or any academic product that requires details for recognition by the sightless child.

Storage Containers are excellent sources to shop assorted Braille components. Store Fictional components such as Braille labeled crayons, Perkin's Braille eraser, responsive indicators and sticky push facts in one package. Store Nemeth (math) components such as a Children's Abacus and Braille rulers in a second package. Bins will guide in keeping your past or present student's desk neat and structured. Simple storage space storage containers keep products from rolling off the desk and contained in a defined place for easy access.

Seat Sacks: Provide extra undergraduate storage space with an original "Seat Sack" or individually made undergraduate seat bag. They make fantastic undergraduate storage space and organization of Fictional and Nemeth (math) worksheets, Braille files or a Braille perform publication. They are commercially available in different sizes or can be homemade.

Storage Crates: Store academic establishing Braille guides in sturdy cages in a consistent place near the Braille undergraduate. Use individual cages to organize Fictional Braille guides, Nemeth (Math) guides, workbooks and chapter guides. Educate your undergraduate how to independently order volumes numerically and to locate his/her guides in each crate.

Dycem is a non-slip material. This product is particularly useful under a Perkin's Braille author or other components to keep them from sliding on the table. Dycem is available in many university supply catalogues.

Wikki Stix is a hands-on responsive teaching product that can be used as an educational device to create responsive components. Use Wikki Stix to create and teach brought up range shapes, figures and pictures and to show the formation of musical notes and time signatures. Your undergraduate can use Wikki Stix on multiple choice worksheets to indicate his/her choice or use them as temporary responsive direction cues on technology sources. Wikki Stix can be used for responsive demonstration of Braille value formations during Braille training.

Adhesive Tactile Marking: Bump Dots or responsive self-adhesive facts, marks or slashes are excellent for brands telephones, keyboards, calculators, technology sources such as start/stop switches. Tactile facts should be used on a limited basis on select buttons for recognition and direction to devices.

Feel and Peel Stickers: These Braille and create decals are available as responsive smile/frown faces, abc, figures, reward statements and point symbols. Use them as rewards for a job well done, as responsive sources on easy bar graphs and charts or incorporated into mathematical training along with extra academic usages.

Interlined Nemeth (math)workbooks are excellent sources for the typical class establishing that may not have the support of a fulltime Teacher of the Blind. Most Braille textbooks and Braille workbooks are provided only in Braille structure. Consider offering interlined Nemeth (math) workbooks so that the non-Braille studying staff can actively guide the Braille undergraduate during academic establishing mathematical instruction. There are Braille Transcription Services that provide interlining services at inexpensive price points. This can be one of best sources you can provide to maximize mathematical educational here we are at your undergraduate.

Tactile Treasures: Promotes the growth of Math and Language Concepts for Children with Visual Impairments. It bridges the transition from concrete products to brought up range responsive representations.

Mangold Developmental System of Tactile Perception and Braille Page Recognition: The provide assists the new Braille reader in creating their responsive monitoring abilities, proper hand position, Braille letter value recognition and rapid responsive identification/reading. It has a instructor guide along with a wide range of actions, worksheets, games and tests. Enough time you take with your undergraduate to complete this program is well worth the responsive monitoring you will reinforce by the end of this method. The worksheets are excellent responsive monitoring preparation practice projects.

Building on Styles Braille Literacy Program: This Braille knowledge program encourages the growth of Braille punctuation, studying and ability as a copywriter. Building on Styles is provided for a wide range of grades and units from age groups 4 and up and addresses language, comprehension, fluency and phonics along with skill areas such as language, growth of tactual discrimination and sound and letter associations. It has a instructor educational guide, extra lesson actions and consumables.

On The Way to Literacy: These double perspective (print/Braille) guides come in publication sets for age groups 2.5 to 5 years of age. These guides provide cute tale lines with raised-line drawings. Develop beginning knowledge abilities, structured responsive monitoring and the fun of studying. Consist of this source into Braille training, collection tale time, instructor directed studying actions and parent/child tale time. Use these guides for university collection tale some time to as a undergraduate lending source.

Quick Pick Materials: Quick Pick Braille Contractions are provided in flash card structure and are very useful practice resources for the property and university establishing. They are excellent self-guided sources and are available as both literary and mathematical functions (Nemeth) structure.

Braille Bug: The Braille Bug is a fantastic source that contains an action publication, slate and stylus, abc card and secret messages in Braille. It is an ideal source for teachers and parents and is a super action for academic establishing Show & Tell for student/teacher presentation during Helen Keller recognition 7 days at university.

Weekly Readers: Every week Visitors in Braille structure are one of the best and most cost-effective inclusion academic sources for beginning knowledge. Contact United states Publishing Home for the Blind, Inc. and consider placing orders well in advance of the university season.

Braille and Tactile Story Books: These Braille brought up line/tactile coloring/story guides are available through Maxi Aides. They are ideal sources to use in Early Education Braille training and as extra sources in the property establishing. These tactile/Braille guides are provided in Braille structure, Braille and create along with responsive graphics. Books cover a wide range of topics including: Calendar publication, vegetables publication, abc publication, shape publication and a counting publication. Develop structured responsive monitoring abilities, pre-Braille abilities, beginning recognition of responsive images among a wide range of other abilities. This product is a fantastic source for both university and house.

Word Playhouse: This kit provides print/Braille Velcro flooring that adhere to a felt perform board. Fosters beginning letter recognition, Braille value recognition, punctuation, decoding, phonics, language and studying abilities.

Math Windows: Comes in basic mathematical, algebra and geometry structure. This product offers create and Braille in the form of Nemeth (math) flooring. Math Window flooring are used on a magnetic board to show mathematical functions in Braille structure. Math Window is an ideal device for the academic and house establishing.

MAPS: There are a wide range of well made responsive charts available through the Princeton Braillist and the United states Publishing Home, Inc. High quality charts are essential in the training and learning of the sightless undergraduate. Organized responsive map studying should be initiated in Braille training and reinforced in the academic establishing setting. There are responsive charts currently being provided for very inexpensive price points.

Primary Phonics by Barbara W. Makar is a double perspective (print/Braille) publication collection. Set 1 and set 2 both include 10 tale guides each provided in large create, Quality 1 (un-contracted) and Quality 2 (contracted) Braille. These guides are excellent extra studying. This is a fantastic product for the academic and house establishing.

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