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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Let's Get This Straight

My job is to help teachers teach blind kids the same thing they teach their sighted kids. I bring in and do the special "stuff" for their vision and inform them of the accommodations they need to make. Some people don't get it. They don't want to get it. I'm your back up and not your enemy! If you see it as more work, then it leads me to think you really haven't been working up to par in the first place.

The Hindu : Sci-Tech / Science : Photoscreening ‘could detect lazy eye in children’

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article811069.ece?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4caa46a7081e359f,0
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you may go blind or deaf

Hmmm.
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Abandoned and condemned to die:

WOW! What a story!
http://www.nationmw.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6864:abandoned-and-condemned-to-die&catid=119:national-news&Itemid=125

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Cut Outs and writing Practice Sheets

Below are links to the cutouts I promised some of you. For new teachers who do not have email, I am sending through your principals so please have patience with me, principals!
As a reminder, they are used instead of coloring sheets for children who will need tactile accomodations. Example: If the sighted peers are coloring pumpkins for the fall, use the cutout patterns at the links to fold and cut using contruction paper, printer paper or craft paper. Then allow the children to color the cutout on a textured surface. That will make the crayon on the paper have texture and the child can feel where he/she has colored.
Let me know of any other shapes you'd like to see.

Some examples of textured surfaces that can be used for coloring are:

window screen taped or stapled to a board
canvas board
plastic light covering for the fluorescent lights [look up and see what kind is over the lights in your class. You can get a sheet for a few $$ at Lowes or Home Depot]
sand paper
sidewalk