College Bound

College Bound

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  • Author: Ellen Trief
  • Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
  • ISBN: 9780891288039
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

The transition from high school to college is a significant turning point in a student's life, and this easy-to-read guide gives students the tools they need to select and apply to college and move forward with skill and confidence. Everything a student needs to know is included, from developing organizational, note-taking, test-taking, and study skills to managing living space, student-teacher relationships, social and academic life, and extracurricular and leisure time activities is included.


Reading Connections

Reading Connections

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  • Author: Cheryl Kamei-Hannan
  • Publisher: AFB Press
  • ISBN: 9780891286349
  • Category : Blind children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

Reading Connections: Strategies for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments offers an in-depth and user-friendly guide for understanding reading instruction for teachers and professionals seeking to improve the reading skills of their students who are visually impaired. The book addresses in detail the essential components of reading--phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension--as well as other key reading components and subskills. While this book addresses the needs of students who read print, braille, or both, much of the book is also consistent with strategies for teaching reading to students who have, or are at risk for, developing reading disabilities. Teachers of students with visual impairments, as well as family members and other professionals who work with children who are blind or visually impaired, will find within this book a repertoire of strategies and activities for creating a balanced, comprehensive plan of reading instruction for each student and for teaching the essential reading skills necessary for students' success.


Diversity and Visual Impairment

Diversity and Visual Impairment

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  • Author: Madeline Milian
  • Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
  • ISBN: 9780891283836
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 486

Discusses how cultural, social, and religious factors play an important role in the way an individual perceives and copes with a visual impairment, and how it can affect their self-esteem and social relationships.


Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness

Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness

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  • Author: Lauren J. Lieberman
  • Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
  • ISBN: 0891284540
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 418

From three prominent educators and athletes comes this important new sourcebook on teaching the skills that will enable both children and adults with visual impairments and deafblindness to participate in physical education, recreation, sports, and lifelong health and fitness activities.Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness includes methods of modifying physical skills instruction; techniques for adapting sports and other physical activities; teaching methods and curriculum points for physical skills instruction throughout the lifespan; and information about sports and related activities, providing rules, adaptations, and information about competition options. It is an ideal manual for physical educators, adapted physical education specialists, teachers of students with visual impairments, orientation and mobility specialists, occupational and recreational therapists, and anyone else interested in sports and recreation for persons who are visually impaired or deafblind.


ECC Essentials

ECC Essentials

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  • Author: Carol B. Allman
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780891284987
  • Category : Children with visual disabilities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 658

ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments is the first comprehensive book for teachers of students with visual impairments to focus on the nine areas of the ECC that encompass the unique skills children and adolescents with visual impairments need to learn in order to access the core educational curriculum and become independent individuals, by providing the rationale, suggestions, and strategies necessary to implement instruction. The nine areas include compensatory access, sensory efficiency, assistive technology, orientation and mobility, independent living, social interaction, recreation and leisure, career education, and self-determination. ECC Essentials helps teachers manage time efficiently and effectively; work with students of different ages and ability levels; collaborate with parents and other members of the educational team; conduct assessments; align instruction with state standards and the general education core curriculum; and maximize planning effectiveness. The book includes learning activities that combine several areas of the ECC; information about additional resources; specific guidelines and strategies for teaching each of the nine areas of the ECC. ECC Essentials provides teachers with a road map for helping their students achieve success in school and in life.


Vision and the Brain

Vision and the Brain

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  • Author: Amanda Hall Lueck
  • Publisher: AFB Press
  • ISBN: 9780891286394
  • Category : Pediatric neuroophthalmology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 720

Cerebral visual impairment (also known as cortical visual impairment, or CVI) has become the most common cause of visual impairment in children in the United States and the developed world. Vision and the Brain is a unique and comprehensive sourcebook geared especially to professionals in the field of visual impairment, educators, and families who need to know more about the causes and types of CVI and the best practices for working with affected children. Expert contributors from many countries represent education, occupational therapy, orientation and mobility, ophthalmology, optometry, neuropsychology, psychology, and vision science, and include parents of children with CVI. The book provides an in-depth guide to current knowledge about brain-related vision loss in an accessible form to enable readers to recognize, understand, and assess the behavioral manifestations of damage to the visual brain and develop effective interventions based on identification of the spectrum of individual needs. Chapters are designed to help those working with children with CVI ascertain the nature and degree of visual impairment in each child, so that they can "see" and appreciate the world through the child's eyes and ensure that every child is served appropriately.


Cortical Visual Impairment

Cortical Visual Impairment

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  • Author: Christine Roman-Lantzy
  • Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
  • ISBN: 0891288295
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

The current leading cause of visual impairment among children is not a disease or condition of the eyes, but cortical visual impairment (CVI)-also known as cerebral visual impairment-in which visual dysfunction is caused by damage or injury to the brain. The definition, nature, and treatment of CVI are the focus of great concern and widespread debate, and this complex condition poses challenges to professionals and families seeking to support the growth and development of visually impaired children. On the basis of more than 30 years' experience in working with hundreds of children of all ages with CVI, Christine Roman-Lantzy has developed a set of unique assessment tools and systematic, targeted principles whose use has helped children learn to use their vision more effectively. This one-of-a-kind resource provides readers with both a conceptual framework with which to understand working with CVI and concrete strategies to apply directly in their work.


Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairment

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairment

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  • Author: Marilyn H. Gense
  • Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
  • ISBN: 9780891288800
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

When a child with an autism spectrum disorder is also visually impaired, the effects on learning and behavior and complex and varied. Two exceptional educators condense their years of personal and professional experience into a one-of-a-kind handbook of effective ways to work with such students, including suggestions and approaches for assessment, instruction, and program planning; forms and tools for capturing vital information; information on assessment instruments, instructional materials, and web sites rich in important advice. Professionals and educators, as well as parents, will find critical guiding principles and valuable strategies.


Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

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  • Author: Sharon Sacks
  • Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
  • ISBN: 9780891288824
  • Category : Blind children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 548

"This book expands upon the knowledge base and provides a compendium of intervention strategies to support and enhance the acquisition of social skills and children and youths with visual impairments ... Part 1 ... addresses social skills from a first-person perspective. The second part ... examines how theory seeks to explain social development and influences assessment and practice ... Part 3, ties personal perspectives and theory to actual practice. Finally, Part 4 ... offers numerous examples and models for teaching social skills to students who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabling conditions."--Introduction.


Keys to Educational Success

Keys to Educational Success

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  • Author: Sharon Sacks
  • Publisher: AFB Press
  • ISBN: 9780891285519
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 606

"Published in conjunction with the Perkins School for the Blind."