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Canvas Accessibility
Canvas is a Learning Management System (LMS) that is used by many school districts for instructional delivery in a virtual model. This presentation will review the accessibility of Canvas using JAWS and provide recommendations to share with classroom teachers to make assignments and content more accessible to students with visual impairments.
Driving with Low Vision: An Overview from the Specialists
“Will I be able to drive?” is a question that students with low vision may ask and have trouble finding accurate information to on this topic. What are transportation options not driving? Attend this session for answers. Panelists include a low vision specialist, a certified driving rehabilitation specialist and an active traveler (non-driver) who has low vision.
VoiceOver on iOS-Intermediate Level
Carrie Farraje from TSBVI Outreach discusses VoiceOver gestures and navigation for immediate users.
Resources
Handout (PDF)Multisensory Considerations
Part 1 - Availability for learning for children with multisensory impairment with David Brown
Part 2 – Being a perceptive reflective detective: a multisensory approach to assessment and learning
Description: The majority of children with deafblindness today have significant difficulties with most or all of their sensory systems, including the perception of pain, smell, taste, touch, and balance, as well as vision and hearing. Two of the senses, the proprioceptive sense and the vestibular sense, are particularly important but often ignored, and they play a key role in helping the brain to attend to the external environment. We need to know about these two senses, how they work, what might happen if they are not working properly, and what to do about it, so that we can make effective contributions to the development of attention, sociability, and functional vision and hearing.
Using the Orion TI-84+ Talking Graphing Calculator
Learn about the Orion TI-84 Plus talking graphing calculator and its benefits for students with visual impairments. Explore features, including interactions using audio, speech, and haptic feedback. Invite your student's math teacher to this session. Discover the Orbit Research website and how to order new calculators, submit old ones for repair, replace lost accessories, and benefit from support and resources. Bring your questions, and we will do our best to answer them.
Accessible, Interactive Math with Desmos
Interactive mathematics software can empower students to build confidence and intuition and explore math questions more deeply. Learn about several tools for making mainstream interactive mathematics software accessible to students with visual impairments, including: screen reader friendly equation editing, audio and tactile representations of mathematical graphics, and refreshable Braille. Presented by Jason Merrill and Steve Clower, Desmos Inc. and Susan Osterhaus, TSBVI
Usher Syndrome – What’s New?
Nancy O'Donnell, Director of Outreach for the Usher Syndrome Coalition will provide an overview of Usher syndrome as well as resources and strategies that can be used to enhance work with students with Usher syndrome.
5 Literacy Activities for Blind/VI Students who are Emergent Readers and Writers
This presentation is for educators and service providers who work with students of all ages who are Blind/VI with additional disabilities. Many of these students may be moving toward conventional literacy instruction, but need creative and thoughtful sensory and learning supports to get there. Megan will share and demonstrate 5 examples of Comprehensive Literacy (Erickson & Koppenhaver, 2013) activities adapted for Blind/VI students with additional disabilities: Shared Reading, Shared Writing, Independent Reading, Independent Writing, and Working with Letters and Sounds. All activities will include video demonstrations and step-by-step directions. Join us to add some motivating activities to your instructional toolbox for both distance and in-person settings as we practice the mantra: “Every child reads. Every child writes."
Quick Tips and Tricks for Positive Behavior Supports
We will be discussing some basic principles of Positive Behavior support, including the 3 principle keys: Appropriate expectations, engaging activities, and effective behavior management and how to implement these for students with sensory differences.
Using the Intervener Team Model for Students who are Proficient Communicators
While the majority of the children and youth who are deafblind are emerging communicators, there is a growing number who are “proficient communicators” being served in general education classrooms. There are many resources and strategies available detailing how Interveners can support emerging communicators. This sessions will explore the roles of Interveners for Proficient Communicators through information shared by the presenter and information gathered from participants.