This is by no means a comprehensive list - just a selection of sites I found helpful as I tried to learn about teaching students without vision.
Disability Info: Visual Impairments Fact Sheet (FS13)
Making Your Text Accessible
Providing
Textbooks in Accessible Formats
Welcome To Recording for
the Blind & Dyslexic (many texts are available on tape)
VI Guide's
Vision-related
Services | Sources for Books (Betsy Walker, Blind and Visually
Impaired
Ring)
National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped
Access Technology
(from the Rochester Institute of Technology)
The Blind Readers' Page
Requesting Texts in Digital Format From Textbook Publishers (some
examples)
Houghton
Mifflin College - Request Permissions/Electronic File Request
Pearson
Education: Request Form for Students with Disabilities
Thomson
Learning Permissions Request
Adaptive
Technology Resource Centre - Technical Glossary (from the
University
of Toronto)
Optical
Character Recognition / Reading Software
High
Technology Reading and Writing Devices for People with Vision Problems
Making Your Web Pages and Course
Materials Accessible
Building
Accessible Curriculum and Courseware Tools - Education Beyond the Campus
How
Accessible
is Your Website? Test it with Bobby
Creating
Accessible Web Pages
Creating Accessible
Web Pages #2
Creating
Accessible Web Pages #3
Quick Tips to
Make Accessible Web Pages
Accessible
Web Page Design: Resources
Other Adaptive Technology Resources
Upshaw Institute for
the Blind: Suppliers of Adaptive Technology and Special Needs Products
Vendors specializing in
technology for the blind (from the NY Institute for Special
Education)
Tutorials on
the Use of Various Adaptive Technologies (University of Buffalo)
Blind
Related
Technology Links (from Ron Marriage's Blind Links)
Vision
Disability
Resources (from the Inclusion in Science Education for Students
with
Disabilities website)
Technology
Tools for College Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired (from
the Adaptive Technology Center for N.J. Colleges)
Vision
Technology: Literacy (from the Statewide Vision Resource Centre -
Victoria,
Australia)
Adding Audio
Descriptions To Television Science Programs (Emilie Schmeidler,
American
Foundation for the Blind)
Described
Videos: Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped: Carnegie
Library
of Pittsburgh
Click the
Captions,
Select the Descriptions: Making Captioning and Video Description
Essential
for Any Learner (Jutta Treviranus, University of Toronto)
Tactile Graphic Resources
Tactile
Graphics, An Overview and Resource Guide (John Gardner, Oregon
State
University)
Basic
Principles for Preparing Tactile Graphics (American Foundation for the
Blind)
How to Make Tactile
Pictures Understandable to the Blind Reader (Yvonne Eriksson)
Creating
Tactile Graphics (High Tech Center Training Unit, California Community
Colleges)
Guidelines for Producing Tactile Graphics
Tactile Educational
Materials: Tips and Resources (Robert S. Jaquiss, Jr.)
Tactile
Diagram Manual (TAEVIS) Image
Files Available on TAEVIS CD
NCTD: What are
Tactile Graphics NCTD:
Making Tactile Graphics
Tactile
Graphics by Polly Edman - American Foundation for the Blind book
Quantum
Technology - PIAF resource book (puff paper and tactile image maker
necessary)
Tactile
Graphics Product Resource List
Horizons For the
Blind ($2.00 tactile graphics for anatomy, anthropology, astronomy,
botany, sex education, zoology)
National
Centre for Tactile Diagrams: Core Graphics Packet-Psychology
CGP-Psychology:
Project Background
The
Role of Audio Input When Presenting Tactile Graphics
Tactile
Image Printers and Capsule Paper
Resources for Teachers
The Faculty Room
from University of Washington
Streaming Video
Presentations with Support Publications
Specific
Academic Activity Resources
Archived
Newsletters of the Resource Center for the Visually Impaired
Association
for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Discussion List and Archives
Link to advice
I received from the PsychTeacher discussion list
PsychTeacher
(tm) Discussion List for Teachers of Psychology
Adapting
the Curriculum to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners | PBS show
Ensuring Appropriate
Accomodations for Students with Disabilities
Strategies
for teaching students with vision impairments (West Virginia University)
Teaching Students
With Disabilities: A Practical Guide (University of Illinois)
Teaching Science to Students with Disabilities (updated July 2003)
(From ERIC Clearinghouse)
Teaching
Students With Disabilities (David Johnson, John Brown University)
Science for Students with Visual Impairments: Teaching Suugestions and
Policy Implications
The
Electronic Campus and Equal Access to Higher Education
Web Resources for Assisting College Students With Disabilities
The Rewards and
Continuing
Challenges of Teaching Blind and Visually Impaired Students
Paths
to Equal Opportunity: Teacher’s Manual for Adapting Science Experiments
for Blind and Visually Impaired Students
Teaching Science to
Students
with Disabilities
Suggested Adaptive
Tools and Materials for Math
Drawings
and the Blind (John Kennedy, available from University of Toronto
Libraries
Resources for Blind Students
Resources
for Blind Students
Transitions:
Reflections
of a Blind College Student
How to Get Access to
Print: What It Takes to Succeed as a Blind College Student
Blindness
Resources from Goodwill
Self-Advocacy in the
College Classroom
Getting
the Most Out of Lectures and Presentations
compiled by:
Dr. Linda L. Walsh
Department of Psychology
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
Updated 7/31/06
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