Social Studies

Assessment

• Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments

Curriculum

• Curriculum for Teaching the Visually Impaired

Instructional Aids

• American Printing House for the Blind (Social Studies Related Products)
• Exceptional Teaching Aids

Instructional Strategies

• A Teacher's Guide To The Special Educational Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children
• Social Studies and Science in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments
• Short Term Program Classes at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Functional Skills

• Functional Academics: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments

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Social Studies Resources

Item #	Title	Annotation	Author	Media	Category
SS1	A Teacher's Guide To The Special Educational Needs of Blind and Visually Handicapped Children	This book provides instructional strategies for teaching the visually impaired. ASIN: 0891281088	S. Mangold		Instructional strategies
SS2	American Printing House for the Blind (Social Studies related products)	Vendor of products used with teaching the visually impaired (social studies products include maps, globes, and tactual landforms).	n/a		Instructional Aids
SS3	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 assessment of compensatory skills.	D. Sewell		Assessment
SS4	Curriculum for Teaching the Visually Impaired	This teaching manual provides special educators and regular education teachers with information needed to teach regular curricular areas as well as specialized skills to visually impaired students. ASIN: 039804161X	J. M. Rlyne		Curriculum
SS5	Exceptional Teaching Aids	Catalog of products used for the instruction of visually impaired students.	n/a		Instructional Aids
SS6	Functional Academics: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments	This curriculum is designed for students in which a developmental or academic approach to learning is inappropriate.  It includes activities and teaching strategies.	S. Hauser, N. Levack, L. Newton		Functional Skills
SS7	Short Term Programs at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired	TSBVI offers one week courses during the regular school term for intensive training in specific areas of a student's IEP. (Texas students only)	n/a		Instructional strategies
SS8	Social Studies and Science in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Children and Youths With Visual Impairments	This chapter contains ideas for modifying the general education curriculum for student understanding of the material and the importance of the collaboration between general education teacher and the teacher of the visually impaired. ASIN: 0891283390	D. Ross and M. Robinson		Instructional strategies