Social Interaction Skills

Adolescents

• FOCUSED ON: Social Skills
• Independent Living: A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments Volume 1: Social Competence
• Psychosocial Adjustment and the Meaning of Social Support for Visually Impaired Adolescents
• Perceptions of the Impact of Visual Impairment on the Lives of Adolescents

Assessment

• Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments
• Carolina Curriculum for Handicapped Infants and Infants at Risk
• Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs
• FOCUSED ON: Social Skills
• Independent Living: A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments Volume 1: Social Competence. 2nd Edition

Communication

• Communication: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments
• Every Move Counts

Curricula

• Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Functional Academics: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments
• How to Thrive, Not Just Survive: A Guide to Developing Independent Life Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth
• Independent Living: A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments Volume 1: Social Competence
• Perkins Activity and Resource Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents of Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities (2 Volumes)
• Santa Clara County Social Skills Curriculum for Children and Visual Impairments

Early Childhood

• Carolina Curriculum for Handicapped Infants and Infants at Risk
• Carolina Curriculum for Handicapped Preschoolers with Special Needs
• FOCUSED ON: Social Skills

Elementary

• FOCUSED ON: Social Skills

Family Resources

• How to Thrive, Not Just Survive: A Guide to Developing Independent Life Skills for Blind And Visually Impaired Children and Youth
• The Development of by Blind and Visually Impaired Students: Exploratory Studies and Strategies
• Blind Children's Center
• Perkins Activity and Resource Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents of Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities (2 Volumes)
• Sexuality Education for Children with Visual Impairments: A Parents' Guide

Instructional Aids/Materials

• American Printing House for the Blind (Social Interaction Skill Products)

Instructional Strategies

• Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Building Self-Esteem
• Communication: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments
• Development of Social Skills by Blind and Visually Impaired Students: Exploratory Studies and Strategies
• Do's and Don'ts For Teaching Social Skills
• FOCUSED ON: Social Skills
• From IEP to Teaching Strategies... How Do We Get There? (especially when teaching Social and recreational skills)
• How to Thrive, Not Just Survive: A Guide to Developing Independent Life Skills for Blind And Visually Impaired Children and Youth
• Circle of inclusion
• Independent Living: A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments Volume1: Social Competence.
• Promoting Acceptance of Children with Disabilities From Tolerance to Inclusion
• Social Skills in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments
• Teaching A Blind Child How To "Read" Body Language
• Ways To Enhance Socialization and Social Interaction For Visually Impaired Students
• What Social Skills Enhance Integration

Low Vision (Students with)

• Socialization And The Child With Low Vision

MIVI

• Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities
• Communication: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments
• Every Move Counts
• Functional Academics: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments
• Perkins Activity and Resource Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents of Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities (2 Volumes)

Resources

• Are Social Skills Teachable? A Review of the Literature
• Blind Children's Center
• Communication: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments
• Development of Social Skills by Blind and Visually Impaired Students: Exploratory Studies
• Development of Social Understanding In Children With Visual Impairments
• From IEP to Teaching Strategies... How Do We Get There? (especially when teaching Social and recreational skills)
• Inclusion
• How to Thrive, Not Just Survive: A Guide to Developing Independent Life Skills for Blind And Visually Impaired Children and Youth
• Promoting Acceptance of Children with Disabilities From Tolerance to Inclusion and Strategies

Sexuality

• A Teachers' Guide To The Special Educational Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children
• Sexuality Education for Children with Visual Impairments
• Sexuality Education for Children with Visual Impairments: A Parents' Guide
• Social/Sex Education for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments

Self-Esteem

• Building Self-Esteem

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Social Interaction Skills Resources

Item #	Title	Annotation	Author	Media	Category
SIS39	FOCUSED On: Social Skills	Series of video and print materials for helping youngsters who are visually impaired develop essential social skills. They are clustered for different age groups. ISBN: 0-89128-329-3 VHS-ISBN: 0-89128-330-7	Karen Wolffe & Sharon Zell Sacks, Eds.	and	Adolescents, Assessment, Early Childhood, Elementary, Instructional Strategies
SIS17	Independent Living: A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments - Volume I: Social Competence. 2nd Edition	This curriculum serves as a resource and guide for assessment, evaluation, and instruction of students with visual impairments.	R. Loumiet & N. Levack		Adolescents, Assessment, Curricula, Instructional Strategies
SIS10	Psychosocial Adjustment and the Meaning of Social Support for Visually Impaired Adolescents	Abstract: The phonological-awareness skills of 19 New Zealand children who are blind and were using braille as their reading medium were compared to those of a reading- age-matched control group of sighted children who were three years younger. Children who had difficulty reading braille were delayed in their development of phonological awareness, demonstrating strengths and weaknesses that were similar to those of the younger sighted children. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 96(1), 22-37,Jan. 2002	S. Kef		Adolescents
SIS12	Perceptions of the Impact of Visual Impairment on the Lives of Adolescents	Abstract: This article reports on a study of 10 adolescents with visual impairments and their best friends. It found that each adolescent had a unique perspective on the impact of visual impairment on family, school, and peer relationships but that all valued their friendships. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 94(7), 434-445, July, 2000.	L. P. Rosenblum		Adolescents
SIS28	Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments	This kit brings together informal checklists, suggestions for format; assessment materials that you may want to buy, informal reading inventories, and assessments of compensatory skill areas.	D. Sewell, Ed.		Assessment
SIS44	The Carolina Curriculum for Handicapped Infants and Infants at Risk	Curriculum designed for infants who may be at risk of some sort of delay in reaching developmental milestones (for ages birth to 3). ISBN 1-55766-074-3	N. Martin-Johnson, et. al.		Assessment, Early Childhood
SIS45	The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs	Curriculum designed for toddlers who may be at risk of developmental delay (for ages 3 to 5). ISBN 1-55766-032-8	N. Martin-Johnson, et. al.		Assessment, Early Childhood
SIS20	Communication: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Students with Visual and Multiple Impairments	This resource guide compiles communication teaching methods and strategies. It is intended as a general resource for students who are deafblind or visually and multiply impaired. ISBN 1-880366-22-3	L. Hagood		Communication, Instructional Strategies, MIVI, Resource
SIS22	Every Move Counts	This manual is designed to teach individuals unable to use formal language systems to communicate effectively through sensory-based strategies. ISBN 076168543XWS215	J. E. Korsten, D. K. Dunn, T. V. Foss & M. K. Francke		Communication, MIVI
SIS42	Functional Academics	Curriculum designed for students in which a developmental or academic approach to learning is inappropriate. It includes activities and teaching strategies.	S. Hauser, N. Levack, and L. Newton		Curricula, MIVI
SIS1	How to Thrive, Not Just Survive: A Guide to Developing Independent Live Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth	This book provides guidelines and strategies for helping blind and visually impaired children to develop, acquire and apply skills that are necessary for independence in socialization, orientation and mobility, and leisure time and recreational activities. ISBN: 0-89128-148-7	R. M. Swallow & K. M. Heubner, Eds.		Curricula, Family Resource, Instructional Strategies, Resources
SIS18	Santa Clara County Social Skills Curriculum for Children with Visual Impairments	The Social Skills Curriculum has been designed to assist teachers of the visually impaired, regular education teachers, related service personnel, and family members in designing social skills intervention strategies to assist students with visual impairments in developing social skills. Available from: B. J. McCallum, 1296 Mariposa Ave. San Jose, CA 95126	B. J. McCallum & S. Sacks		Curricula
SIS11	The Development of Social Understanding in Children with Visual Impairments	This article reports on the performance of 16 visually impaired children, aged 4 – 12, on tasks designed to assess their understanding of false belief, a central aspect of social understanding. The study found that the development of understanding of another’s false belief is delayed in children with severe visual impairments and that the degree of vision loss seems to be a key variable in that development. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 89(4), 349-358. (July/August 1995)	L. M. McAlpine and C.L. Moore		Resources
SIS32	Blind Children's Center	Organization that provides information for parents and teachers of the visually impaired promoting education and independence.	N/A		Family Resources, Resources
SIS53	Sexuality Education for Children with Visual Impairments: A Parents' Guide	Excellent resource for parents of visually impaired children and how they can educate their children about sexuality at all ages of development.	Judith Davies		Family Resources, Sexuality
SIS41	American Printing House for the Blind (Social Interaction Skills Products)	Products designed specifically for the visually impaired	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
SIS48	Building Self-Esteem	Website which has "recipes" or activities for promoting self-esteem in children.	N/A		Instructional Strategies, Self-Esteem
SIS21	Development of Social Skills by Blind and Visually Impaired Students: Exploratory Studies and Strategies	This book aims to link basic theoretical constructs of social development to the unique process that blind and visually impaired children undergo to learn and maintain social skills. ISBN: 0-89128-217-3	S.Z. Sacks, L.S. Kekelis, & R.J. Gaylord-Ross (Eds.)		Instructional Strategies, Resources
SIS47	Do's and Don'ts For Teaching Social Skills	List of suggestions for teachers to encourage students to participate in social interactions.	Olivia Schoenberger		Instructional Strategies
SIS27	From IEP to Teaching Strategies. . . How Do We Get There? (especially when teaching social and recreational skills)	This booklet can serve as a basis for inservice, especially when using the Independent Living Curriculum to teach from.	V. Perwein & N. Levack		Instructional Strategies, Resources
SIS51	Circle of Inclusion	A comprehensive webpage outlining philosophy of inclusion, strategies and training videos. There are lists of resources and suggestions as well.	N/A		Instructional Strategies
SIS24	Promoting Acceptance of Children with Disabilities From Tolerance to Inclusion	This book studies the social lives of children with visual impairments in public schools and uncovers many of the obstacles to social integration. ISBN: 0968038808	P. A. MacCuspie		Instructional Strategies, Resources
SIS9	Teaching a blind child how to "read" body language	The author who is visually impaired gives tips and pointers for encouraging students to understand body language.	Rona Harrell		Instructional Strategies
SIS7	Ways To Enhance Socialization and Social Interaction For Visually Impaired Students	List of suggestions for teachers to encourage social interactions.	Sharon Sacks		Instructional Strategies
SIS6	What Social Skills Enhance Integration	List of things a person with a visual impairment can do to increase his accepted integration into society.	Sharon Sacks		Instructional Strategies
SIS3	Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities	Designed for students who are between the ages of 6 and 22 who have visual impairments combined with other disabilities, such as hearing impairments or dual sensory impairments and/or severe developmental delays.	N. Levack, S. Hauser, L. Newton and P. Stephenson		Curricula, Instructional Strategies, MIVI
EC41	Perkins Activity and Resource Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents of Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities (Two Volumes)	This guide provides hundreds of teaching suggestions for MIVI students. Organized in different domains of education.	C. Cushman, et al.		Curricula, Family Resources, MIVI
SIS54	Social Skills. In A. J. Koenig and M.C. Holbrook (Eds.), Foundations of Education: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments	Chapter devoted to explaining modifications and techniques needed for teaching social skills to visually impaired students. ISBN: 0-89128-331-5	S. Sacks and R. Silberman		Instructional Strategies
SIS46	Socialization and the Child with Low Vision	The author who is visually impaired relays important information about the development of social skills. She defines factors that affect relationships and basic premises that parents and teachers must know about low vision.	Anne Corn		Low Vision
SIS2	Are Social Skills Teachable? A Review of the Literature	This article reviewss studies that have attempted to increase three types of social skills in blind and visually impaired individuals: assertiveness training, interactional skills, and skill in physical communication. Each study is described briefly, and the procedures and results are noted. Most of the studies reported increased social skills following intervention; however, many did not report empirical evidence of change. The articles also demonstrate and need for the follow-up and generalization of learned skills, as well as for the application of skills with preadolescent children. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 85(2) pp. 58-61.	J. Erin, K. Dignan, and P.A. Brown		Resources
SIS43	A Teachers' Guide To The Special Educational Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children	Designed for students who are between the ages of 6 and 22 who have visual impairments combined with other disabilities, such as hearing impairments or dual sensory impairments and/or severe developmental delays.	S. Mangold		Sexuality
SIS52	Sexuality Education for Children with Visual Impairments	General overview of how visual impairment effects the development and physical aspects of sexuality in children.	Judith Davies		Sexuality
SIS40	Inclusion	Website dedicated to promoting inclusion in all settings, is for parents, teachers and special education teachers.	N/A		Resources
SIS55	Social/Sex Education for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments	The author, a long time instructor of visually impaired and deafblind students, gives a outline of a curriculum and techniques for instructing sex education to students with visual impairments.	Tom Miller		Sexuality