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Children with visual impairments often have more difficulty learning to feed themselves than do children with adequate vision. Babies and toddlers with visual impairments lack one major avenue of exploration, and this significantly influences their awareness, perceptions, and anticipation of the food which is presented to them. As a result, they often resist the introduction of textured foods, show a lack of interest in the process of self-feeding, and may be perceived as 'poor eaters'.For further information about this resource please click here
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Babies with a serious visual loss often prefer their world to be constant and familiar. Therefore, they tend to resist changes, and this includes changes in position. Many parents have told us that their visually impaired babies only enjoy lying on their backs. From the very beginning, then, it is important to introduce a wide range of movement activities to your visually impaired baby. The earlier we start and the more appealing we make these activities, the more comfortable your baby will be when trying new positions. This booklet offers a variety of ways for you to promote your baby's movement development. The suggestions are meant to be guidelines and we hope that you will use them in ways that work best for you and your baby. In everything you do with your baby, the two words to remember are “talk” and “cuddle” because your voice and touch are the two most soothing ways to comfort and reassure your baby.For further information about this resource please click here
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“We show you creative, simple, enjoyable ways your child can learn about himself and his world through movement, music and play. This can be done so effectively within your own home and with little or no cost involved!...” "…Moving to Learn" provides many wonderful ideas and knowledge that help fill these gaps. We guide you through our book and music to place all of the pieces of life's jigsaw, all the learning and development together. All these pieces work along side each other to create the big picture...a happy, balanced, confident, alert child, who grows into a happy, confident, well balanced adult…” (2004 Crowe & Connell).For further information, please click here
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Parents are their children’s first and most influential teachers. That’s an important job — and this popular, highly respected guidebook makes it much easier. Already a trusted resource for thousands of families, this lively book gives parents of children from age 3 through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they’ll need to live as independently as possible. Parents will start with a reader-friendly overview of the basics of teaching and then go deeper with a step-by-step guide to teaching seven different types of skills: get-ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home-care, and information gathering skills.For further information, please click here
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Encouraging independence in children who are blind: activity sheets and dvd. Addresses ILS areas including: Domestic & Community, Dressing, Meal time and Personal Care.For further information, please click here
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How do children become social beings? When a child is unable to observe visually and imitate how other people react, this complex developmental process can become fragmented, and incomplete. As a result, providing specific information, direct instruction, and opportunities for social interaction to children who are blind or visually impaired is critical to their growth and education. Edited by two groundbreaking educators and researchers, with contributions from other educators and researchers in this area, Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments: From Theory to Practice explores what theory can tell us about how children who are visually impaired become socially skilled individuals. It then, presents a compendium of techniques and strategies for helping youngsters, from preschoolers through young adults, including those with additional disabilities, develop and refine social skills.For further information, please click here
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A comprehensive assessment and curriculum designed for use with children birth to six who are blind or visually impaired. The MANUAL contains instructions and procedures regarding OR Project materials. The TEACHING ACTIVITIES include ideas for each skill taught either in the home or classroom setting. They are suggestions for the parent and teaching staff, not designed as step-by-step "recipes," but rather, as starting points for instruction. The REFERENCE SECTION includes a Glossary of educational and vision terms needed by those working with children who are visually impaired, a list of references, resources for obtaining educational materials and literature, things to make and do, articles on play and development, and blank copies of all the forms, checklists, and informal evaluations which can be copied and used. The SKILLS INVENTORY consists of more than 800 behavioural statements, organized in eight developmental areas: cognitive, language, compensatory, vision, self-help, social, fine motor, gross motor.For further information, please click here
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Innovative materials for helping youngsters start on successful careers! Skills for Success details specific activities for preparing children with visual impairments for independence in daily life and success on the job. This comprehensive manual outlines how important capabilities can be developed through meaningful learning experiences at different ages. Contributors who are experts in their subject areas focus on suggestions for developing abilities leading to career and life satisfaction for preschoolers, elementary school students, and middle school students. Providing a wide range of information and resources, Skills for Success will prove to be an invaluable guide to teachers, parents, and others who work with children with visual impairments.To purchase this book please click here
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Booklet provides general information on visual acuity, including definition and types as well environmental considerations that facilitate best visual opportunities for those with vision impairment. Pictures are used throughout to provide readers with a general understanding of what a person with vision impairment may experience (see) and strategies/considerations to support people.For more information please click here
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This is a huge compendium of practical and enjoyable sensory activities by Jackie Cooke for touch, vision, taste and smell, which is invaluable to anyone working with young children. The text outlines major principles and aims in developing sensory skills followed by six easy-to-use sections containing basic activities, everyday activities, games and topics to stimulate the senses.For more information please click here
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Orientation and Mobility: The Early Years of Infancy through Preschool by Tanni L. Anthony, Ed.S.Details:Description of paper to go here
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Senswticher
Details:SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning. SENSwitcher has been designed as a progressive teaching and assessment tool and is accompanied by an 18 page set of teachers notes together with assessment records, developmental skills progression models and small step checklists linked to the QCA P Levels for ICT. These documents are available FREE from the download area on the website.
Details: A factsheet produced by Vision Australia to gift buying ideas for young children with a visual impairment.
Details: Useful guide for suitable toys for a blind or visually impaired child. Other disabilities are also covered.
Details:A factsheet covering topics such as "The first step security", "Encouraging Curiosity", "Learning Through Feedback" and "Learning about themselves"