Johnny winter revisits his roots

Johnny winter revisits his roots

Famous People with Disabilities--Intellitools Classroom Suites Activities

March is Disabilities Awareness Month. I designed these activities for children to learn about people who succeeded regardless of having a visual impairment. here are the links to the two activities:

1. Famous People with Visual Impairments
http://aex.intellitools.com/searchdetails.php?act_key=famouspeoplewithvisualimp

2. Famous People with Visual Imapirments 2
http://aex.intellitools.com/searchdetails.php?act_key=famouspeoplewithvisualimp0

Apl.de.ap is legally blind

http://www.philstar.com/funfare/Article.aspx?articleId=650757&publicationSubCategoryId=70

Retinopathy of Prematurity--Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder
By Gildog
A premature infant, he was put on oxygen treatment in an incubator; likely it was an excess of oxygen that exacerbated a visual condition known as retinopathy of prematurity, causing his blindness. In 1954, his family moved to Detroit, ...
ALL SOUL AND FUNK - http://allsoulandfunk.blogspot.com/

Visual Impairments Specialist
Westminster Elementary School
http://lee.ebrschools.org/kathynicholslee
http://www.kathyskids.org
http://teacherweb.com/LA/RobertELeeHigh/MrsMichael/t.aspx
http://mskathyskids.blogspot.com

From Andalusia Star-News: Crosby made music for God

Ms. Kathy sent the following article from The Andalusia Star-News:

Crosby made music for God

http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/news/2009/may/01/crosby-made-music-god/

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Ms. Kathy says: Very interesting and inspiring!

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Biographies and Videos

I found videos to accompany the biographies of famous people with visual impairments and now Proboards lets you link in from YouTube. The only problem is that children who go there at school where there is a network will have these videos blocked. YouTube does not show up on Groupwise/Novell networks..So if you are at work and your company is also on such a network the videos may appear as empty white boxes. You can wiat to see them at home on your home computer or at the library.

Go to the message board at http://mskathy.proboards30.com and look under "Biographies."