[Pibe-division] anyone advise come up with tangible symbols for students who are blind or visuallly impaired for activity boxex or calendar boxes

[Sara Rooz]

Hi Fellow educators:

I have 14 students who have additional disabilities including blindness or visually impaired. All students have developmental disabilities. The majority of my students are nonverbal and nonambulatory. One student is autistic and ambulatory. I am trying to create for each of my student an activity box or calendar box and use tangible symbols to indicate the activities each student engages in throughout the day. I plan to teach each classroom teacher how to present to each student the tangible symbol I come up with. I have read about this concept in the publication from AFB Press "Tactile Strategies' and have read various studies about this topic in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. All students engage in the following activities: eating breakfast or being fed via feeding tube breakfast, morning session, gym, music, various related services including vision education, physical therapy. Occupational therapy and speech therapy, eating lunch or being fed lunch via a tube and going home on a bus. One student engages in the above activities as well as sharing experiences of the weekend and ideas for classroom projects, reading activities that focus on visual signs noticed at a store, by answering yes/no with communication signs developed by the speech therapist, participates in math and is learning about how to differentiate all coins and learns about various countries. Does any more experienced tvi who teaches my population would be open to suggestions for possible tangible symbols for the activities I have listed above look forward to reading all suggestions for tangible symbols from more experienced tvis who teach students who are blind or visually impaired with additional disabilities. 

Thanks for every person's response to my question.

Sara Rooz

Certified Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired in New York 

 

Independent Related Service Provider Vision Education Services in New York City



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