Perkins Webcasts
Perkins’ series of on-demand webcasts are presented by experts in the field of visual impairment and deafblindness. Depending on whether your interests are professional or personal, you will find topics of interest. Click on the titles below to watch a particular webcast. After viewing a webcast, we encourage you to converse with the presenter, link to additional information on the topic or download the presentation outline by clicking on the designated button. We will look forward to answering your questions and receiving your feedback.
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Kate Fraser Presents our newest webcast Accessible Science: Life Science, which outlines teaching strategies and adaptations to make science lessons and activities accessible to students who are visually impaired.Select the webcast that you would like to view from the following list.
- Accessible Science: Life Science
By Kate Fraser
This webcast is the first in a series on accessible science focuses on making Life Sciences Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments. Perkins Science Teacher Kate Fraser outlines teaching strategies and adaptations to make science lessons and activities accessible to students who are visually impaired. The webcast goes along with the debut of a pilot Accessible Science website (www.Perkins.org/accessiblescience). This site features activity plans, product tips, materials, and other resources for science teachers working with students who are visually impaired.
- Adapted Physical Education
By Matt LaCortiglia
Based on the upcoming publication, "Run, Play, Move," this webcast offers a planning model to develop physical activities for individuals with disabilities. FAIER is an acronym for each aspect of this model -Foundation, Awareness, Implementation, Evaluation, and Refinement.
- Creating Vocational Portfolios for Students with Significant Disabilities
By Mary Zatta
School-to-Work helps educators to create meaningful vocational experiences for their students with significant disabilities and to develop vocational portfolios, essential tools as students transition to adult life. The book School to Work, is currently available in the Perkins store.
- Early Literacy for Students with Multiple Disabilities or Deafblindness
By Deirdre Leech
Students with multiple disabilities, including deafblindness face many learning challenges. They do not learn literacy in typical ways. Often they do not have exposure to books and literacy based materials. Children with hearing loss may not have heard stories read aloud, and may not have used books on tape. The goal for these students is to maximize access using specialized formats.
- Mealtime Skills
By Sue Shannon
Sue Shannon, an occupational therapist at Perkins School for the Blind, describes some of the challenges faced by students who are blind in learning mealtime skills. It focuses on and provides video demonstrations of effective strategies for teaching the skills of pouring, serving, utensil use and cutting. Running time 30 minutes
- Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments
By Tom Miller
The ability to develop friendships and interact with other students is a common concern for parents of children with visual impairments. This Webcast demonstrates how to analyze and adapt teaching strategies to teach social skills to students who are visually impaired or deafblind on an equivalent level with their peers. Tom's presentation on Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments is part of a larger book called “Welcoming Students with Visual Impairments to Your School." and is currently available in the Perkins store.