Coping with School Closures During COVID-19 from Paths to Literacy

Check out video's uploaded in student activities for homemade materials for students with multiple disabilities and working on tactile skills, task boxes, etc.

Vea videos subidos en actividades estudiantiles para materiales caseros para estudiantes con discapacidades múltiples y que trabajan en habilidades táctiles, cuadros de tareas, etc.

Apps for the visually impaired

• Flip-Over Faces (Free) is a way for kids to explore hundreds of fun facial expressions while learning about emotion and practicing dexterity. Download for Android or iOS

• Nearby Explorer Online (Free) is a free outdoor and indoor location app designed for use by people who are blind. Download for Android or iOS

• Braille Badges (Free) are accessible stickers to use in the messaging app! Featuring white canes, cute guide dogs, and simbraille message bubbles. Perfect for any occasion. Download for iOS

• Visual Brailler (Free) is perfect for practicing transcription work with a digital braille writer. Great for on the go NLS certification exercises. Download for iOS

• SlapStack Math (Free) is a fully accessible action and memory game that uses math flashcards instead of playing cards. Collect points by winning the most cards! Two to eight players can lay on the iPad, or two to four players on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Download for iOS

• Practice2Master Fractions (Free) makes learning about fractions fun with an unlimited number of problems to practice. Download for iOS

• Nearby Explorer (DO NOT BUY NOW, they are working on an update that will be FREE when it is released) $79.99. This app is available only on the App Store for iPhone and iPad: Download for iOS

• Nearby Explorer Online (Free) This app is available only on the App Store for iPhone and iPad: Download for iOS

• Draw2Measure Protractor (Free) available on the App store for iPhone and iPad. The Draw2Measure Protractor app allows students to measure angles in two ways. First, students can place an angle over the screen of a device, such as a phone or tablet, and trace along the sides of the angle with a fingertip or stylus. The app records the locations of the sides and then calculates the angle. For objects that may not fit on a screen, students can find measurements by rotating the device itself, which utilizes a built-in gyroscope sensor to measure the angle. Unlike traditional protractors, the Draw3Measure Protractor is accessible for blind and low vision students. It gives all students, both sighted and visually impaired, an alternative way to measure angles, thus meeting students’ diverse needs in math and science classrooms. Download for iOS

-enhanced accessibility; designed for sighted students as well as students with low vision or blindness

-Allows students to measure angles by tracing the sides rather than reading measurements as with a traditional protractor.

-Reports angle measurements in both degrees and radians

-Includes detailed instructions and a link to a demonstration video

• Math Robot™ ($4.99) Download for iOS

• Talking Typer ($4.99) Download for iOS

Click on this link for family resources for the Blind/Visually Impaired across the state of Colorado!

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Here are some tips in general for working with sign language interpreters to get you started. Also a good idea to set up time to speak with the interpreter before and after the scheduled lesson time to make sure you are on the same page.

• Maintain eye contact with the Deaf person and not with the interpreter.

• Address the Deaf person directly.

• Avoid phrases such as “ask her this…”, or “tell him to…” Talk to the Deaf person through the interpreter.

• Speak clearly.

• Do not face the interpreter.

• You may be asked to spell out unfamiliar names (i.e. name of a medication, unusual name of a person, etc).

• Be prepared to pause while you are speaking. The interpreting process requires more time when two languages are involved.

• Make sure the line of sight is clear between the interpreter and the Deaf person, even when you are walking around.

• Allow a brief silent time for reading if you hand out written material. Wait until the Deaf person looks up before you start to speak again.

• The interpreter is bound by a Code of Professional Conduct which means the interpreter will interpret everything that is either signed or spoken in the room (i.e. phone calls, private conversations, environmental sounds, etc.) Everything communicated in the room will be kept confidential.