Target Audience: Academic or functional academic students from elementary through high school

Prerequisite Knowledge: Vocabulary related to apps and accessibility (smartphone, screen reader, etc.)

Lesson Plan Goal: Open up Goggle Maps. Enter a destination of your choice and make sure you reverse the route. Change the standard setting from Drive to Walk. Report to the group how close to the destination the GPS has delivered you to your location.

Materials Needed: Google Maps

Target Audience: Academic or functional academic students from elementary through high school

Prerequisite Knowledge: Vocabulary related to apps and accessibility (smartphone, screen reader, etc.)

Lesson Plan Goal: Students who participate in this lesson will learn about fun and useful apps that are accessible with smartphones and tablets.

Materials Needed: Notetaking device

Friday, May 1

Instructor: Renee Ellis, Kathi Garza, Mary Shore, Deanna Peterson, Kate Borg

Instructor’s Affiliation: Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI)

Instructor’s email: ellisr@tsbvi.edu

Primary Core or ECC Area: Literacy, Social, Motor, Cognitive Development

Lesson Plan Goal: Focus will be on directional/positional concepts-specifically, in/out, over/under, beside/behind and up/down.

Materials Needed: Bring a big box, or laundry basket or something that your child can get in/out of.

Bill Edwards, an Educational Consultant from the Ministry of Education, will provide resources tailored to the needs of students with sight loss. Bill works within the Vision Resource Services department at W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind and will share some strategies around helpful tips navigating the online learning system, different resources, and advocacy strategies for youth and parents who might be struggling with navigating this system. This group is tailored to parents. The group meets via Zoom web conference and teleconference on May 1 from 10-11 a.m. Eastern Time. Call-in information will be given upon registration.

Are you curious to learn more about guide dogs but don't know where to start? This workshop will cover how to decide if a guide dog is right for you, what skills you need before applying to schools, common misconceptions about guide dogs, how to pick a guide dog school, what to expect during the application process, and how to best prepare for school once you are accepted. Please RSVP to Briana Kusuma at bkusuma@lighthouse-sf.org. NOTE: this workshop takes place online via Zoom and is specifically geared towards high schoolers, transition age youth, and their families.

We are going virtual with our free camp experience this summer! With camper safety in mind, we have cancelled our traditional Summer Experience Camp for 2020. Going virtual allows us to open camp to teens 14 and 15 years old in addition to our standard ages of 16 and 17 years old. Many aspects of our camp adapt well to this platform, including exploring mobility options like guide dog travel, building leadership skills and relationships with peers. Camp dates are expected to be confirmed soon.