[Pibe-division] "Seeing" in the Distance

[Dr. Denise M. Robinson]

"Seeing" in the Distance 
There is a quick easy and fairly inexpensive way to adapt a child's inability to see in the distance in the classroom.

For the Low vision child: Most classrooms today have a document camera 
or computer hooked to a projector that projects the teacher's work to 
the front of the room. Where it is completely inaccessible to children 
with visual impairments. With a simple VGA splitter, you can hook any 
size of monitor to that document camera and the world in front of the 
classroom is immediately brought to the child. In a pinch where 
something was not enlarged, the document camera can be turned into a 
CCTV (closed circuit TV) where the paper can be placed under the camera 
and immediately projected onto the child's monitor.

For the completely blind, I take a different approach. As teachers use 
their computer and projector to project to the front of the room, I have
 installed JAWS talking software on the teacher's computer. Then I hook 
the Braille Note to the computer or any other adapted laptop. With 
today's Bluetooth option, the cable can be eliminated now. However, if 
you have an older Braille Note that needs a cable, the information that 
is projected to the front of the room, immediately goes to the Braille 
Note and the child can read from the display while listening to the 
teacher. Now the blind child can "see" in the distance too.
 
       Denise 
 
Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor
Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training
509-674-1853     deniserob at gmail.com
 
http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
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