152 media results found for 'blind'
In collaboration with NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Creative Technology and Design students at the ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado Boulder have deve...Read More
Builds upon a student, who is visually impaired, learning to communicate with a trusted adult about concerns/problems encountered at school. Opens with the student making a good choice to move away from a peer who was bothersome. Through various s...Read More
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist, and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing at 19 months old after an illness. This video provides an overview of the ...Read More
Byron Bridges, the ASL/English Bilingual Coordinator at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, discusses ASL mouth morphemes. The use of ASL mouth morphemes increases students' awareness of ASL adjectives and adverbs. They also help expand...Read More
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
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
Advertising has become standard practice in health care, and vision correction appears to be taking the lead. Americans spend nearly $2 billion on vision correction, and providers spend nearly $200 million on advertising it. Looks into the ethics ...Read More
Alexandra Alfonso is anything but shy. This precocious eight-year-old is confident, feisty, and enjoys showing off her math skills. Alexandra, Allie, as she likes to be called, was born with Peter's Anomaly, a glaucoma-like condition that resulted...Read More
Sam was born with an autosomal recessive form of microcephaly, a condition marked by a small head, severe developmental delays, blindness, and other challenges. He began receiving support services at 18 months and in the fall of 2007, began kinder...Read More
Camille was born premature and now has severe retinopathy of prematurity. Born at 25 weeks and weighing less than two pounds, she spent nearly three months in the neonatal intensive care unit and arrived home at nearly five pounds. Though it took ...Read More
Parents Jenny Smith and Alan Levin discuss their son Max Smith-Levin. Max is a two-year-old bundle of energy who brings joy to his parents and big sister Callie. He also has an extremely rare condition called bilateral anophthalmia, meaning he was...Read More
Every student deserves equal access to learning opportunities. Giving description and captioning options to students with broad differences in their ability to see and hear makes educational media accessible to them. Provides examples of descripti...Read More
