Sports for Everyone: A Handbook for Starting Sports Camps for Children with Visual Impairments

The purpose of this manual is to provide potential camp directors with material and information that will help them run a successful camp that empowers children with visual impairments, blindness and deafblindness to participate in sports to the best of their ability.

This manual can be used with children of various disabilities and is also applicable to other disciplines such as arts and crafts, recreation, science, etc. Buy this book.

Help Yourself: Mealtime Skills for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

This publication is a how-to guide for parents and professionals working with individuals who are blind or visually impaired. It provides specific examples for various mealtime skills including: pouring, spreading, serving, cutting and slicing, and using condiments.

Good mealtime skills can help prevent social isolation for children and children with visual impairments who do not have the chance to learn by observing and imitating others. They need explicit instruction and feedback to gain the information and skills needed to fit in with peers. Buy this book.

Making Science Accessible

This book is designed for the science teacher in the mainstream science classroom working with a student with visual impairments. The book offers a variety of multisensory activities, suggestions for easy adaptations and readily available equipment that can help all students learn basic physics concepts. Activities included in the book are based on the National Science Education Standards to which most states have aligned their science curricula. Buy this book.

Communications and Congenital Deafblindness

This publication consists of four booklets on Communication and Deafblindness, each with its own focus. They have been written to support and inspire individuals and teams around each person with deafblindness.

A companion DVD is included with each booklet to illustrate the concepts described. The booklets are based on the work of Deafblind International’s Communication Network. Buy this series.

Undaunted by Blindness

This book provides concise biographical information about 400 notable people who are blind. Author and history lover Cliff Olstrom was inspired to write this book by the many interesting lives he read about in his studies.

The subjects come from every historical period and every walk of life: musicians, writers, administrators, innovators, teachers, singers, politicians, songwriters, composers, athletes, poets, ministers, scientists, judges, physicians, radio broadcasters, mathematicians, philanthropists, historians, businesspeople and actors.  Many were born blind, and others made their greatest contributions after becoming blind later in life.  Buy this book.

Drawing With Your Perkins Brailler

Written by Braille & Talking Book Library Director, Kim Charlson, Drawing With Your Perkins Brailler contains step-by-step directions for creating 36 different drawings ranging from basic to highly intricate. Drawings include shapes, various animals, and pictures with holiday and transportation themes.

The actual braille pictures are included to show what the drawings will look and feel like when completed. This book shows both sighted and blind readers that braille can be used to create visual pictures. Available in large print and braille editions. Buy this book.

How We See It: A Basic Guide to Low Vision

How We See It is a guide that provides a good foundation for understanding low vision in children. Topics include an understanding of vision, different categories of vision loss and how it may affect functioning.

It also provides very practical information about preparing children for low vision examinations along with common environmental adaptations. It is a valuable resource for aspiring teachers, personnel preparation programs in special education and for parents. Buy this book.

Deafblindness: Educational Service Guidelines

Deafblindness: Education Service Guidelines was developed as a collaborative efforts among leaders in the field of deafblindness, the National Family Association for the Deafblind, State Deafblind project and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education.

This publication is a best practice guide that educational administrators at the state, local and program levels can use to understand the implications of combined vision and hearing losses on learning; and to recognize the need for specialized assessment, program planning and service delivery. Buy this book.