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Object Experience Books: Literacy Resources for Students who are Multi-Impaired and Visually Impaired


Posted by: Department of Rehabilitation Services-Bureau of Education & Services for the Blind

Date: 05/18/2012


This is a listing of websites for parents to get more information on literacy for students who have multiple disabilities and are visually impaired. This information was compiled from various resources by two Teachers of Children with visual impairments at the BRS-BESB program in CT. Object Experience Books: Literacy Resources for Students who are MIVI (Listing Compiled by L. Drufva & T. Gutierrez) Literacy for Students with Multiple Disabilities: Perkins http://www.perkins.org/resources/scout/literacy-and-braille/literacy-multiple-disabilities.html Emergent Literacy for Children who are Deafblind: Project SALUTE http://www.projectsalute.net/Learned/Learnedhtml/EmergentLit.html Tips for Home & School-Making Object Books: Nevada Dual Sensory Project http://www.unr.edu/educ/ndsip/tipsheets/makingobjectbooks.pdf What is a Story Box? TSBVI http://www.tsbvi.edu/component/content/article/64/1737-what-is-a-story-box Every Child is a Potential Reader: Perkins http://www.perkins.org/resources/curricular/literacy/ IN TOUCH Volume 6, Issue 4 February 2008: The Newsletter of the New England Deafblind Project, p4-13 ACCESSING THE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORKS THROUGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: LITERACY, Martha Majors, p4-6 EVERY CHILD IS A POTENTIAL READER, Weismer, Leech, Majors, p6-13 http://www.perkins.org/assets/downloads/clearinghouse/nec0208.pdf LITERACY AROUND EVERY CORNER, Weismer & Leech (p2) http://www.perkins.org/assets/downloads/clearinghouse/nec0208pullouts.pdf Evaluating Literacy Skills of Students who are Deafblind: B. Miles(2005) http://www.perkins.org/resources/educational-publications/deafblindness-educational-service-guidelines/desg_final-04-ch3-cl.pdf Emergent Literacy Skills of Students who are Deafblind, McKenzie, FSU CARD Conference 1/21/2006 Story Boxes: A Hands-On Literacy Experience, Drissel, Nevada Dual Sensory Project http://www.unr.edu/educ/ndsip/tipsheets/storyboxes.pdf Creating Conversation Boxes, Demchak, Nevada Dual Sensory Project http://www.unr.edu/educ/ndsip/tipsheets/conversationboxes.pdf Using Story Boxes with Older Children, Demchak, Nevada Dual Sensory Project http://www.unr.edu/educ/ndsip/tipsheets/storyboxesolderstudents.pdf Page Fluffers, Elquist, Nevada Dual Sensory Project http://www.unr.edu/educ/ndsip/tipsheets/pagefluffers.pdf Creating and Using Tactile Experience Books for Young Children with Visual Impairments http://www.tsbvi.edu/seehear/spring03/books.htm Experience Stories for Functionally Blind Pre-readers http://tsbvi.edu/component/content/article/64/1735-experience-stories-for-functionally-blind-pre-readers Object Books, TSBVI http://tsbvi.edu/component/content/article/64/1736-object-books Alphabet Book, TSBVI http://tsbvi.edu/component/content/article/64/1738-alphabet-book

Age Groups

All ages (birth to 26)
Parents of children with visual impairments

Interest Categories

Education
Multiple disabilities
Reading activities

Contact: Tina Gutierrez

Phone: (860) 602-4157

E-Mail: tina.gutierrez@ct.gov