Free audible streaming books: all age levels.

Click here to start streaming.

Below is a list of activities created by CCIU vision teachers:

• Pen Pals - write letters in braille back and forth with someone
• Drop off braillewriter and manipulatives (talking calculator)
• Braille app on iPad - Braille Tutor
• Label kitchen/household items
• Use clear tape to make sticker labels
• National Homework Hotline for blind/visually impaired
• Studybraille.com
• Daily braille journal
• Have the student become the teacher and teach the family/parents what you know about braille
• Use clay/playdough, muffin tins or flashcards to make braille dots
• Scavenger hunt – create braille sentences about what you found
• Additional braille activities for children
• Click here to listen to the Braille Alphabet song.

Click here to sharpen your Language Arts and Math skills.

Below is a list of resources developed by vision teachers at CCIU:

• Resources for those with blindness and/or visual impairments
  • Facetime
  • Seeing AI
  • DocScan
  • PDF Expert
  • YouDescribe
  • YouTube Videos with audio description
  • Accessibyte (website with recommended apps)
  • Exploring Braille with Madilyn and Ruff
• Resources for those with cortical visual impairment
  • TapNSee Now
  • Visual Attention Light
  • Fluidity
  • ILoveFireworks Lite
  • CVI Connect Pro
• Additional Resources/Apps
  • Objective Ed
  • Zoom
  • Storyline Online
  • Netflix and Disney Plus (both offer audio description)
  • Kennedy Center
  • Children’s Library

Paths of Literacy shares ways to provide virtual services or activities for your student or child who is visually impaired. They provide daily lessons for students with visual impairments, covering areas of expanded core curriculum including: problem-solving skills, yoga and movement activities, I’m a Scientist and I Didn't Even Know It!! Mystery Box Observations and self-awareness. 

Click here to visit Paths of Literacy.

Daily lessons for students with visual impairments covering: problem-solving skills, Fun At Home Yoga and Movement Activities, I’m a Scientist and I Didn't Even Know It!! Mystery Box Observations, and Self-Awareness.

Accessibyte apps can be accessed from school or home, on a Chromebook, iPad, Mac, Windows or Android device. Each app has visual and audible accessibility built right into the browser, which support students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, have reading difficulties or just want something fun and different.

Click here to visit Accessibyte.

Click here for 180 signed stories for independent and shared viewing.

Click here for Phonological Awareness, Following Directions, Auditory Awareness and more.

Click here for Phonological Awareness games.

Free, fun activities and resources to support the development of speech, language and listening skills for those of all ages that have hearing loss.

Click here to visit The Listening Room.

Click here to live chat with clinicians, conduct remote evaluations and access comprehensive COVID-19 resources.

Below are a list of resources compiled by CCIU teachers:

• Free Apps
  • Moovit
  • Transit
  • Around Me
  • Clew
  • Lazarillo
  • Aira
  • Be My Eyes
  • Seeing AI
• Activities
  • Body parts - play games to reinforce locating and identifying body parts and their function.
  • Sensory - find objects for each sense in your home such as things to smell, see, touch, feel or taste.
  • Sound localization/identification - when online or in the community, identify sounds. You can use the following free Apps:
    • Sound Essentials
    • Animal Sounds
  • Directional concepts
    • Incorporate games that include concepts of right, left, forward/front or backward/back on themselves and on people facing them; ask the child to give you directions to a place inside your home or in your yard.

    • Reinforce cardinal directions (north-south-east-west); walk to different areas of your home or neighborhood and ask the child to determine what cardinal direction they are facing.

    • Reinforce clockface directions (12, 3, 6, 9) - start with location of food on a plate.

• Community Signage/Environmental Concepts
  • Either online or if you are out in the community, point out signage to your child that is relevant safety and navigation (example: stop signs, one-way signs, pedestrian crossing, school crossing, enter/exit, railroad crossing)
• Additional Resources
  • APH
  • Teaching Students with Visual Impairments
  • Paths to Literacy
  • Money Identification

Click here for social emotional learning activities.

Click here for social and emotional learning strategies for parents.

Click here for a website that helps parents actively support kids’ social and emotional development.

Click here for language booklets about COVID-19. (also available in Spanish)

Click here for a coronavirus social narrative.

Click here for a social narrative about cancellations due to Coronavirus.

Click here to watch a video about strategies to help us get through this time.

Click here for 10 YouTube channels from POPSUGAR to encourage movement.

Communication all day long - AAC in the classroom with Dr. Caroline Musselwhite

• PaTTAN YouTube channel
• Podcast Platform (listen-only)

Click here for ways to promote language at home with an AAC Device.

Click here to listen to/watch: I Have More to Say - Moving Beyond Requesting with AAC.

Click on the following links for fine motor skill activities for kids:

• 40 Fine Motor Skills Activities
• Motor Ideas for Older Kids