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Sensory Balance: An Approach to Learning Media Planning for Students with CVI
Students with CVI have educational needs that are unique and often distinctly different from those of individuals with ocular forms of visual impairment. “Sensory Balance” refers to the combination of a person’s sensory learning modalities that results in the most efficient, comfortable access to the world.
Everyday Life: A Guidebook for Teaching Independent Living skills
This publication contains a guidebook for teaching as well as an assessment tool. It provides information and resources related to teaching independent living skills to students who are blind or visually impaired with or without additional disabilities.
Teaching Life Differently: The Expanded Core Curriculum for Babies and Young Children with Visual Impairment
Resource for educators, therapists, and parents. This book provides information about the importance of teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to young children with visual impairment and ways to incorporate teaching strategies into interactions in all settings.
How We See It: A Best Guide to Low Vision in Children [2nd Edition]
Learn about different types of vision loss, how they impact functioning and adaptations for learning and life skills. Understanding low vision in children, including different categories of vision loss and how they affect functioning.
Science Literacy: A Curriculum for All Students with Sensory Impairments
All students benefit from a consistent foundation of science concepts. By participating in high-expectation, inquiry based, interdisciplinary K-12 education, students with disabilities have the opportunity to develop science concepts.
Total Life Learning: Preparing for Transition. A Curriculum for All Students with Sensory Impairments
Developed for students ages 3 to 22 who are blind, visually impaired including those students who have additional disabilities or are deafblind. The focus is on the development of life and career goals.
Educational Service Guidelines: A Guide for Blind and Visually Impaired Students
Guidelines for programs serving students who are blind or visually impaired that provide a road map for agencies, education service providers and parents.
Beyond Pegboards: A Guide for Teaching Adolescent Students with Multiple Disabilities
Uses a theme-based approach to create meaningful learning opportunities for students with multiple disabilities.
Drawing With Your Perkins Brailler
Written by Perkins Library Director Kim Charlson, these step-by-step directions for creating 36 different drawings range from basic to highly intricate shapes and include various animals and pictures with holiday and transportation themes.
Introducing Braille
Help children become excited about reading and writing braille and to be curious and confident as they explore it. Learn how to introduce children to why we read and write braille, and to how reading and writing are integrated.
Getting Ready for Braille!
Skills checklists and activities to use when teaching pre-braille skills. The handbook is organized into three levels: Level 1 – Introductory; Level 2 – Intermediate; and Level 3 – advanced level of pre-braille skill development.
Alternate Routes: Adapting Orientation and Mobility Techniques
Pamphlet and companion DVD. Resource for orientation and mobility (O&M) specialists working with students who are having trouble learning standard O&M techniques.
Run, Play, Move: A planning model to create physical education activities for individuals with disabilities
This book and companion DVD provides an overview of the FAIER model for individuals with disabilities.
Welcoming Students with Visual Impairment to Your School
Four training modules that can be adapted for varying audiences and environments: Challenges and Supports, Social Skills, O&M, and Low Vision Multimedia.
Making Science Accessible: A Guide for Teaching Introductory Physics to Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
Offers a variety of multisensory activities, suggestions for easy adaptations and readily available equipment that can help students with visual impairments learn basic physics concepts.
Perkins Activity and Resource Guide (2nd Edition) – A Handbook for Teachers and Parents of Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities
Practical suggestions for activities for young children who are visually impaired with multiple disabilities by specialists in the subject area. Organized into sections for each instructional domain.
Remarkable Conversations: A guide to developing meaningful communication with children and young adults who are deafblind
This book addresses the needs of children of all abilities, from those who use nonlinguistic forms of communication such as objects or body movements to those who use linguistic forms such as sign language or writing.
Monograph No. 1 – Natural Environments: Service and Advocacy for Children who are Visually Impaired or Deafblind
Outlines the implications of the natural environments debate on early intervention services for children who are blind, visually impaired or deafblind. Intended as a tool for advocacy for parents and professionals.
Sports for Everyone: A Handbook for Starting Sports Camps for Children with Visual Impairments
This manual provides camp directors with material and information to 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.
Help Yourself: Mealtime Skills for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
How-to guide for parents and professionals working with blind or visually impaired, providing specific examples for various mealtime skills including pouring, spreading, serving, cutting and slicing and using condiments.
Deafblindness: Educational Service Guidelines
Developed by leaders in the field of deafblindness, guide offers insight on implications of combined vision and hearing loss on learning and the need for specialized assessment, program planning and service delivery.
Competencies for Teachers of Learners who are Deafblind
Collaborative effort of 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.
Clean to the Touch: Housekeeping for Teenagers and Young Adults with Visual Impairments
Step-by-step techniques that enable people with visual impairments to undertake housecleaning tasks.
Suggestions for Modifying the Home and School Environment – A Handbook for Parents
Easy and inexpensive modifications that make a difference in a child’s ability to move and learn at home and in school.
Landscape of Touch
Follow the experience of deafblind and non-deafblind people, as they explore and interact with each other in the tactile world. Includes companion DVD.
Congenital Deafblindness and the Core Principles of Intervention
Perkins educators offer insight on what it’s like to live without the benefit of sight and hearing and techniques to help understand, connect with and educate individuals who are deafblind. Includes companion DVD.
Transition to the Cultural Language
How people with congenital deafblindness experience the world using the bodily senses. Perkins educators offer perspective on the challenge of learning language for people born without vision and hearing.
Communication and Congenital Deafblindness Series
Written to support and inspire individuals and teams that work with people who are deafblind. Based on the work of Deafblind International’s Communication Network. Includes DVD companion.
Communication and Congenital Deafblindness: Meaning Making
Perkins educators explore why gestures from one person leave traces in the body and mind of a person born without sight and hearing. Guide also explores the importance of cultural language and tactile communication.
Mini-Steps and Milestones: A History of Services for Young Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
History (US) of services to blind and visually impaired infants and preschoolers. Perkins has a rich legacy of serving children, birth to five, as prominent leaders who guided the development of services for this population.
Perkins School for the Blind (MA) (Campus History Series)
Perkins School for the Blind, the first school of its kind in the US pioneered education for people who are deafblind when seven-year-old Laura Bridgman became the first deafblind person to learn language, in 1837.
Undaunted by Blindness: Concise Biographies of 400 People Who Refused to Let Visual Impairment Define Them
Provides 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 reads about in his studies.
FIFTY STARS: A Ranking of the Most Important Workers in the Field of Blindness and Visual Impairment in the United States from 1827 to 2015
Biographical information, achievements, and milestones of over 50 influential people who worked in the field of blindness and visual impairments.
Competencies for Paraprofessionals Working with Learners who Are Deafblind in Early Intervention and Educational Settings
Knowledge and skills for paraprofessionals working with learners who are deafblind. Offers insight into the skills needed to help implement quality early intervention and educational programs for students who are deafblind.
Classroom Collaborations
Advice public school teachers and administrators need to incorporate primary (elementary) students with visual impairments into the general classroom.
Pamphlets
Quality Indicators / Indicadores de Calidad
A tool for outside evaluators to measure the capacity of a program, and thus to develop a plan to provide future support and to measure the impact of such support in building capacity. [FreePDF download in English and Spanish]
https://www.perkins.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PQI-English-1.pdf
https://www.perkins.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PQI-Spanish.pdf
The Evaluation of Children with Deaf-Blindness: A Parent Mini-Guide (Pack of 50)
This mini-guide is designed to guide families through the evaluation process of a child who is deaf-blind.
Fact Sheet – Deafblindness: Educational Service Guidelines: The Evaluation Process (Pack of 50)
This fact sheet has been developed to guide families through the initial evaluation process of a child.
Transition to Adult Life for Youth with Deaf-Blindness: A Parent Mini-Guide (Pack of 50)
This mini-guide is designed to guide families through the transition to adult life process.
Deafblindness: Educational Service Guidelines: Developing an Effective IEP (Pack of 50)
Developed to guide families through the development of an IEP for a child with deaf-blindness.
Deafblindness: Educational Service Guidelines: Transition to Adult Life (Pack of 50)
This fact sheet has been developed to guide families through the development of a transition to adult life.
Mini Guia para Padres: Transicion a la Edad Adulta (Pack of 50)
This mini-guide will help you work with your child’s team to develop a plan for services, and Individualized Education Program (IEP), for your child. The IEP is the road-map for your child’s future!
La Evaluacion de los Ninos con Sordo-Ceguera: Una Mini-Guia para Padres (Pack of 50)
This mini-guide is designed to guide families through the evaluation process of a child who is deaf-blind.
Mini Guia para Padres: Desarrollo de un IEP Effectivo para Ninos con Sordo-ceguera (Pack of 50)
This mini-guide will help you work with your child’s team to develop a plan for services, and Individualized Education Program (IEP), for your child. The IEP is the road-map for your child’s future!
Lista De Control De Reunion Del IEP Para Padres De Ninos Con Sordo-Ceguera (Pack of 50)
This checklist was developed to help you prepare for your child’s IEP meeting so that you can be prepared to participate as fully as possible.
Sordo-Ceguera, Directrices De Servicios Educativos: Desarrollo De Un IEP Efectivo (Pack of 50)
Developed to guide families through the development of an IEP for a child with deaf-blindness.
Sordo-Ceguera, Directrices De Servicios Educativos: Transicion A La Edad Adulta (Pack of 50)
This fact sheet has been developed to guide families through the development of a transition to adult life.
Sordo-Ceguera, Directrices De Servicios Educativos: Proceso De Evaluacion (Pack of 50)
This fact sheet has been developed to guide families through the initial evaluation process of a child.
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