Arts Education

Instructional Aids

• Exceptional Teaching Aids

Instructional Strategies

• Art: A Great Tool for Teaching Students With Visual Impairments
• Art Experience is Fundamental to Creative Thinking
• Art History Through Touch and Sound
• Art Ideas
• Arts Education (Chapter)
• Independent Living: A Curriculum with Adaptations For Students With Visual Impairments
• Tactual Art
• Teacher's Guide to the Special Educational Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children
• Time for Art

Music

• Braille M
• Dancing Dots
• Hadley School for the Blind (Correspondence Courses in Braille Music)
• Music in the Key of Life
• National Braille Association, Music Catalog
• Texas State Library

Resources

• Artccess Expressed
• Art Education for the Blind
• Artssociation for the Advancement of Arts Education
• Artxis Dance Company
• Coalition of Inclusive Performing Arts
• Lisa Fittipaldi, Blind Artist
• National Resource Center for Blind Musicians
• Very Special Arts

Key:
article or periodical     book     document     kit     video     website

Art Resources

ID#	Title	Annotation	Author	Media	Category
Art1	Exceptional Teaching Aids	Catalog of products used for teaching the visually impaired, includes items for arts and crafts.	N/A		Instructional Aids
Art2	Art: A Great Tool for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments	This article provides ideas for art exploration for students with visual impairments.	H. Cooper		Instructional Strategies
Art3	Art History Through Touch and Sound	A kit with multi-sensory approaches to learning about art history.	N/A		Instructional Strategies
Art4	Art Ideas	Ideas for teaching the visually impaired arts and crafts activities.	M. Cortesi		Instructional Strategies
Art5	Arts Education in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments	This chapter provides information regarding the instruction of fine arts to children with visual impairments.	D. McNear		Instructional Strategies
Art6	Independent Living:  A Curriculum with Adaptations For Students with Visual Impairments	This three volume resource will help you in assessing, teaching, and evaluating students from school age to adulthood who will live independently or with minimal assistance. Areas include social, self-care, and leisure skills.	R Loumiet and N. Levack		Instructional Strategies
Art7	Tactual Art (Draft)	This article provides ideas for art exploration for students with visual impairments.	Martha Pamperin		Instructional Strategies
Art8	Art Experience is Fundamental to Creative Thinking in Art Teacher's Guide To The Special Educational Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children	This chapter discusses instructing art through various forms of media to students with visual impairments.	S. Mangold		Instructional Strategies
Art9	Time for Art	This handbook for those who work with the visually impaired provides projects and companion lessions.	G. Showalter		Instructional Strategies
Art10	Braille M	This site is for the beginner in braille music.	N/A		Music
Art11	Dancing Dots	Solutions and services include: scanning printed music and automatically transcribing it to braille, software to help blind people independently create sound recordings and printed scores, braille music courses and teaching aids, consultation and training.	N/A		Music
Art12	Hadley School for the Blind (Correspondence Courses In Braille Music)	Hadley provides comprehensive correspondence course work for anyone interested in learning subjects and topics unique to those with visual impairments such as braille, the Nemeth Code, and braille music.	N/A		Music
Art13	Music in the Key of Life	This article provides information for parents about a child with visual impairments who is learning to play a musical instrument.	P. Wright and K. Moss		Music
Art14	National Braille Association Music Catalog	This catalot consists of music books, pieces and instructional material for braille musicians those who teach music to braille learners.	N/A		Music
Art15	Texas State Library	This state sponsored library provides scores of music in braille and large print, textbooks about music and theory and music magazines. (TEXAS RESIDENTS ONLY)	N/A		Music
Art16	Artccess Expressed	This site provides information about the arts for people with all types of disabilities.	N/A		Resource
Art17	Art Education for the Blind	Non-profit organization dedicated to making the visual arts accessible to the visually impaired by using a multisensory approach.	N/A		Resource
Art18	Artssociation for the Advancement of Arts Education	Website dedicated to education in the arts in the United States.	N/A		Resource
Art19	Artxis Dance Company	This dance company works with those with and without disabilities.	N/A		Resource
Art20	Coalition of Inclusive Performing Arts	The purpose of this group is the inclusion of those with disabilities into the area of performing arts.	N/A		Resource
Art21	Lisa Fittipaldi	This website promotes the art of Lisa Fittipaldi, a visually impaired artist living in Austin, Texas.	N/A		Resource
Art22	National Resource Center for Blind Musicians	National Resource Center for Blind Musicians Music and Arts Center for Humanity 600 University Avenue Bridgeport, Connecticut, 06601 Telephone: 203-366-3300 Fax: 203-368-2847 E-mail: info@blindmusicstudent.org	N/A		Resource
Art23	Very Special Arts	International organization dedicated to different programs for those with disabilities.	N/A		Resource