EA Rubric - Essential Assessments for Students who are Visually Impaired This post highlights innovative and timely work done by our colleague by the Michigan Department of Education - Low Incidence Outreach (MDE-LIO) team. The MDE-LIO team has created a series of rubrics to assess the quality of essential assessments (e.g., Functional Vision Assessment, Learning Media Assessm ...
Functional Vision Assessment
Getting In Touch With Literacy Conference Round-Up
The PRCVI outreach team attended the Getting in Touch with Literacy Conference in Seattle, WA from November 14-16, 2019. We've prepared an overview of the sessions we attended along with links to presentation notes and resources. Turning on Touch Thinking: From Tactile Discrimination to Braille Letter Identification This presentation by Donna McNear focused on teaching tactil ...
Next Generation 3D Cube Lightbox
Introducing the Next Generation 3D Cube Lightbox! Take this simple garden decoration/accessory and turn it into an easily adjustable lightbox for students with complex developmental profiles including visual impairment. Unlike a traditional lightbox, this cube has 5 illuminated surfaces. There are 15 colour options and four effect modes (flash, strobe, fade, and smooth) that ar ...