Literacy Ideas for Children with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities

A boy reading a book Children spend hours reading whether alone, with parents, or at school. Children with visual impairments can also enjoy many hours experiencing the fun of literacy. These web pages suggest a few ideas on how teachers and parents can adapt reading activites for children with visual impairmnets. Most of the activites focus on addressing literacy activites for children with multiple disabilities. However,you will find links to pages focused on reading and literacy for all different types of readers. This site provides different practical and easy adaptations to enhance your child's or students' reading experience. Enjoy !

"Literacy is the ability to think as well as know how to extend knowledge for thinking. Literacy is more than the development of a specific predetermined set of skills. It is also recognizing one's own purposes for thinking and communicating (through print or non-print, verbal or non verbal media) and being able to top one's own resources to achieve those purposes"

New Jersey Language Arts Literacy Curriculum Framework

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This web site was created and designed by Deirdre E. Walsh M.S. CCC/SLP, a speech and language pathologist at Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA.She has worked with children with visual impairments and multiple disabilties for over twelve years. This site was designed as partial fufillment of her doctoral coursework in Educational Studies, Lesley University, Cambridge MA.