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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>tangibvle symbols for activities for students with
additional disabilities who are blind or visually impaired to put in activity or
calendar boxes
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face="Times New Roman">Hi Fellow educators:</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">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. </FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Thanks for every person’s response to my
question.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Sara Rooz</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">Certified Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired in
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