[blindkid] Kindergarten services

[Brandy W]

There suggestions are right on target. The faster your daughter is learning
along with her peers the faster she will develop just like a sighted child
with blindness skills. Remember If she already knows half her letters she is
already ahead of many children when they start kindergarten. Your TVI can
start where they left off in Preschool, and she can learn more reading
skills as her peers learn the skills. Many kids do their whole day including
Science with no Para and just that hour of tVI each day. It can be done.
Just takes good adaptation and a willing teacher.

Bran



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-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of L
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:34 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Kindergarten services

Hi all,
My daughter is starting Kindergarten in the fall.  She is a typically
developing child except for her vision.  She can read and write about
one-third of the alphabet and they have started the Patterns program wirth
her in pre-school.  In pre-school she is getting 1 hour a day four times a
week of vision services.  My question to you is, how much time should a
kindergartener receive for direct services with a TBVI?  They are currently
suggesting one hour a day.  Should this include direct services for math,
reading and writing braille?  Should she be included for any of the regular
kindergarten language arts and reading classes or be pulled to be taught
braille the entire time.  The current TBVI suggested modifying the
Kindergarten teachers curriculum and having my daughter work in the
classroom with the para helping her.  Do kindergarten students usually use
the regular kindergarten reading series with adaptations, or are they pulled
out to be taught braille in place of this?  What about science and social
studies?  Can a para help with all these subjects or should the TBVI be
doing this?  Thanks for your input.  Laurie
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