Essential Knowledge of Inclusive Teaching

Essential Knowledge

In the digital age, my essential knowledge of inclusive teaching in Visual Impairment includes apps, websites, and devices for the college-bound Braille student as well as similar resources for the life-skills student learning to use vision to communicate with their peers. Being inclusive means considering the least restrictive environment and providing apps, websites, and devices for all the students on my caseload with low vision or blindness, and for the other stakeholders in the IEP team. Teachers, Parents, and other specialists rely on the TVI to provide information about resources specific to VI.

Refreshable Braille Displays

TVIs must consider a range of means regarding accessibility:

The refreshable braille display, text-reading software, and desktop work together to provide access to the printed form. These are useful in a classroom setting.

https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/JAWS

Magnification, Options

Students need access in all settings, so many devices are portable. Magnifiers come in many forms, from pocket jewel spot-checking, to sherlock-holmes-type handles, to digital magnifiers. Apps on the cell phone or other devices with OCR provide audio information. Apps on the cell phone provide magnification of text. A refreshable display synced to a tablet provides braille information.

https://store.humanware.com/hus/catalogsearch/result/?q=brailliant

https://www.hims-inc.com/product/braillesense-polaris/

CVI – Cortical Visual Impairment

Students with life-skills goals require apps that support the use of vision and accommodate latent response – that’s when the student needs more time to track the visual target.

http://littlebearsees.org/little-bear-sees-ipad-apps/