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Access to Digital Materials: What a Wonderful Gift to Give a Student with Visual Impairment

Access to Digital Materials: What a Wonderful Gift to Give a Student with Visual Impairment. By Tiffany Barbieri and Susan Glaser December 6, 2012 Winter Wonderland of Technology Florida Instructional Materials Center for the Visually Impaired Working with the Experts.

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Access to Digital Materials: What a Wonderful Gift to Give a Student with Visual Impairment

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  1. Access to Digital Materials: What a Wonderful Gift to Give a Student with Visual Impairment By Tiffany Barbieri and Susan Glaser December 6, 2012Winter Wonderland of Technology Florida Instructional Materials Center for the Visually ImpairedWorking with the Experts

  2. Digital Materials… What?!?!?! Digital: All electronic files accessed with technology, including Audio and E-book. Audio: E-Book:

  3. Where do I get this stuff? • Bookshare: E-books • Learning Ally: E-books and Audio Books • National Library Service: Mainly Audio Books • So many more resources available in upcoming sessions! https://visionteacher.wikispaces.com/home(courtesy of Jill Pfluke and Andrea Wallace)

  4. Why go digital? • Reduces eye fatigue • Hard copy Braille not instantly available • Print/Text may be inaccessible • Large print and Braille volumes = Lots of SPACE • Potential for increased Comprehension, Vocabulary and Rate of access • College and workplace: It’s competitive out there! • Improves overall quality of life

  5. Successful College Students Read an Average of . . . • 250-350 Words Per Minute

  6. Who needs digital? Primary sensory channels are typically visual or tactual. What about the secondary channel? Braille readers, print readers, device users, Oh My! A comprehensive Functional Vision/Learning Media Assessment tells all

  7. All of our students with visual impairments can benefit from listening and obtaining information through their auditory sensory channel!!!!

  8. When do we teach auditory skills? Birth-3 Years: Auditory development 3-5 Years: Continued auditory development with Language emphasis Elementary: Listening skills to include increased comprehension Middle School: Guided active listening and more advanced listening skill development High School: Expect independent active listening and knowledge of related technology at an advanced level

  9. Great New Resource for Teaching Auditory Skills

  10. ‘Tisthe Season to SHAREOnline Resources Local Library System- www.hcplc.org/hcplc/justkids/reading/booksonline.html ABC learning Games and More www.fisherprice.com/en_US/GamesAndActivities/OnlineGames/index.html Story Place-www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp Starfall.com Harkthesound.org Tumblebooks- www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp *Think APPS, too. Thank you tablet inventors!

  11. From the Group www.storylineonline.net www.readinga-z.com www.portablenorthpole.com www.audible.com www.myon.com www.khanacademy.org https://nfb.org/audio-newspaper-service Career Connect: ww.afb.org/section.aspx?FolderID=2&SectionID=7 Apps Braille Coder Read 2 Go Futaba

  12. Going Digital at the Pre-K and Elementary Level Read Aloud Add meaning to auditory stories with story boxes, real objects, and experiences Books on Tape/CD Digital Voice Recorder - adult voices Digital Voice Recorder - student voice Utilize Internet and computer for online listening

  13. Elementary Years Focus: Listening for Comprehension Keep those experiences coming! Attending behaviors Use of playback devices Use of screen readers MUST begin computer skills early Model downloading of materials Order chapter books and other texts that are ‘non-academic’ in digital format Use high interest materials See Ike Presley’s 6 Stages of “Audio Assisted Reading” (page 138)

  14. Middle School Students: Learn Active Listening During lectures-facial orientation, posture, eye contact, head nods, responses… Print book methods-note-taking, highlighters, post-its, underline, circle, stop and question, stop and discuss Braille book methods-note-taking, post-its, high dots, paperclips, stop and question, stop and discuss Digital book methods-note-taking, bookmarking, pausing, rewinding, stop and question, stop and discuss Teach multiple strategies for note-taking, regardless of the medium Keep materials high interest, short and age-appropriate

  15. High School: TVIs, Hand over the Reigns! Order textbooks in more than one format Students gather Students locate Students download Students organize Students utilize actively and independently

  16. Is it working? Jerry John’s Basic Reading Inventory Frequent short story read-alouds with graded comprehension questions Collect note samples Take Data

  17. What did you learn? Think about your current caseload and students’ needs. Name one thing that you will take away from this session and use with your students (next week).

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