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Womans wearing blue jeans and a gray top uses a white cane to walk down a tree-lined dirt path towards the camera.

Demonstrates that people with disabilities are basically no different from anyone else. When Catherine attends a friend's party, no one knows she's blind. As they discover the truth, some guests act differently around her. Catherine shows that ...Read More

Classroom with children seated at desks. Caption. Jessica as narrator. I work so hard so I can do the same stuff they do.

Jessica had normal vision until the age of eight, and then, in a few short years, became legally blind. She contracted Stargardt's, an inherited form of macular degeneration, which usually appears between the ages of six and twenty and causes loss...Read More

Overhead view of 2 people in long pants looking toward a brown and beige dog seated on the floor in front of them. Caption. I like her because she's docile.

Looks at the career of service dog trainer. Covers the subjects of a service dog, a rescue dog, how to become a trainer, and tools you use to train dogs. Part of "Career Opportunities for Young People" series.

Screen capture of a video editing software, showing a media window, playback controls, and audio editing.

This an archive video of the Video Description Research and Development Center webinar #2 - "Do It Yourself" Educational Description: Guidelines and Tools. The webinar occurred October 24, 2012. Topics in this webinar include: 1) An update of th...Read More

3 boys sit around a table. 2 have their hands raised. They look toward a woman sitting across from them with her back to camera. Caption. All right, who wants to start?

Learning to integrate listening skills in the classroom, community, and at home is critical for children with visual impairments. Emphasizes the steps in using listening skills by recalling what classmates have said. Students practice asking quest...Read More

Group of teenagers sit in a row facing a woman with a guitar. Caption. Tell me what you think the topic of the song is.

Recognizing off-topic and on-topic conversational comments and questions are key areas for this social skills video lesson. Through the lesson's activities, students with visual impairments will become more familiar with how to build conversations...Read More

Boy sits and looks at an open book in a library setting. Another boy leans over him and a woman stands behind him. A girl sits next to him with an open book as she looks toward him. Caption. Yeah, dude. Hannah confused me.

Students with visual impairments need many opportunities to learn how to read nonverbal gestures and tone of voice of peers and adults. This lesson emphasizes the importance of different sensory-learning channels in communication. While learning a...Read More

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Page from the illustrated story, "Adventures with Darian: A Pirate at (Sea) See," displaying a scene with a girl and a pirate boy examining the contents of a treasure chest. Another picture shows the pirate boy looking warily at a treasure map. Text reads, “Rummaging in his loot, he got out a rag. Carefully he tied it around his head, attached a seashell, and covered his eye. ‘Great idea, Cap’n!’ said Victor the Vicious. Darien’s prosthetic eye was safe. But more disasters came as he tried to read the treasure maps.”

Meet Darian the Daring, the bravest pirate in the seven seas. This is an adventurous story about a daring boy with a prosthetic eye who discovers that the greatest treasure of all has been in front of him all along. Based on the children's book by...Read More

Two rows of white soundwaves against a blue background. In the foreground is the text, “Access: Description, Student Edition.”

This module offers an overview of description and why it is essential to providing access for individuals who are blind or have low vision. The module reviews guidelines for description, discusses laws pertaining to description, and explains the u...Read More

Still image from: Getting a Job! for Students Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired

This online training module was developed and designed for students who are blind and visually impaired and the professionals who work with them. Focusing on the transition from school to work, the training offers a series of activities, supportin...Read More

Blurry city in background. Orchestra of the senses.

Sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell send sensory messages to the brain at a speed of 430km/hr. The brain deals with 11 million information signals per second, and this continual flow of information is sorted and analyzed by the brain, which di...Read More

Technology and science are working to restore, replace, and supercharge the powerful human sense of hearing. Meet a man who is blind whose hearing is so acute that he can navigate a bicycle by the sound of the echo of a click. This episode also hi...Read More

4 framed portrait photos of Role Models, Crystal Melero, Robina Rayamajhi, Blake Lindsay, and Beth Jones.

This online module was developed and designed for students who are blind and visually impaired and the professionals who work with them. Focusing on the transition from school to work, the training offers a series of activities, supporting documen...Read More

Framed image of a woman smiling at camera in an outdoor setting. Title card identifies her as Crystal Melero, Statewide Services Coordinator for Children Who are Blind or Have Low Vision. Text nearby, "Soft Skills and Hard Skills."

Viewers learn the difference between "soft skills" and "hard skills." Hard skills are specific, teachable abilities that can be defined and measured; however, soft skills are less tangible and harder to quantify, such as etiquette, getting along w...Read More

Blind child uses a guide to read braille as a woman seated nearby reaches out a hand to touch the tablet in front of him. Text on image reads, "Braille User." Caption. Let's put an "S" in front, what word is that.

Mary Bilancio, a second grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the strategy making words. The application of this strategy helps students increase their phonemic awareness. Part of the "FSDB Pineapple PD" series.

Group of 4 kids work on a collaborative activity in a classroom setting while a teacher stands by to observe. Text on image reads, "Problem Solve Collaboratively."

Debbi Penrose, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, discusses the concept of time related to earth science. She uses different strategies to help her students understand time and scale related to different geological time pe...Read More

Children sit in a U-shaped formation. The teacher stands at the front of the classroom facing out and points towards an image projected on the screen behind her. Text on image reads, "Review Shared Inquiry Procedures."

Karen Newton, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, demonstrates the strategy shared inquiry. During shared inquiry exercises, students use higher-order thinking skills to have academic discussions about a given text. Part of...Read More

Students work on laptop computers at their desks in a classroom setting. A teacher stands nearby using sign language. Text on image reads, "Procedures in written English."

Cally Traetto, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares strategies for increasing literacy in the different content areas. She aims to help students use ASL/English bilingual strategies to improve their literacy skills in...Read More

Teenagers sit in a classroom looking up at a lesson projected on a screen. Text on image reads, "Students Divide into their Groups."

Jay Floresca, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the concept of differentiated centers. She explains how dividing students into groups provides time for individualized instruction. Part of the "FSDB Pineapple PD" se...Read More

Child sits across from a tablet that is projecting her image like a reflection. Teacher sits next to child pointing down at words on a sheet of paper. Text on image reads, "Discuss Rubric."

Jessica Stultz, a first grade teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, shares the tool signed reading fluency rubric. This strategy is adapted from "Signed Reading Fluency Rubric for Deaf Children" created by Sandra Huston and Sus...Read More

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