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Title	Author	Domain	Category	Problem?
A Standard Tactile Symbol System: Graphic Language for Individuals Who Are Blind and Unable to Learn Braille (1992)	L. Hagood	Compensatory/Access, Deafblind, MIVI	Communication, Tactual Related	Report a problem!
Description: Using a tactile system is explained for increasing students choice making, communication, expanding vocabulary and the understanding of concepts.
AccessNote (App)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Technology	Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: From the AFB press release, "This is the first notetaking app developed and designed specifically for users with vision loss. AFB evaluated many of the other available notetaking apps, but found none to be very efficient or user-friendly to people who are blind or visually impaired."
Activities to Develop Auditory Skills (2016)	C. Tabb	Compensatory/Access, O&M	Auditory Skills	Report a problem!
Description: A leader in the O&M community provides suggestions for improving children's skills locating sound sources and discriminating them.
Adapting Literacy Materials for Students with CVI and Multiple Disabilities (2016)	T. Wilks	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Cortical Visual Impairment	Report a problem!
Description: The author, a TVI, presents how to make books for those with CVI who also have additional disabilities. Techniques on what types of materials to use, contrast consideration, etc. are given.
Aluminum Diagramming Foil for Use with Tactile Graphics Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: This aluminum foil can be used to create masters of raised-line graphics.
American Printing House for the Blind Accessible Textbooks Dept. (Formerly ATIC) (Cost/Quota Funds)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Accessible Books, Large Print Books	Report a problem!
Description: This is a very thorough on-line catalog of books available for purchase in the following media: regular print, audio, braille and enlarged type.
An Overview of Literacy for Children with CVI (2017)	D. Sheline	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Cortical Visual Impairment	Report a problem!
Description: An expert in the field of working with students with CVI explains how the different levels of severity of CVI can effect literacy and provides tips for making early books for these learners.
Assessment of Braille Literary Skills (ABLS) (Cost)	A. J. Koenig & C. Farrenkopf	Assessment, Compensatory/Access	Learning Media Assessment	Report a problem!
Description: This assessment provides teachers of students who are blind with a tool that provides meaningful assessment of braille literacy skills.
Before a Blind Child Can Read a Map	B. Marek	Compensatory/Access, Social Studies	Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: This paper discusses the skills and experiences a visually impaired student must have in order to interpret the information from a tactile map.
Beginning with Braille (Cost)	A. Swenson	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Braille Writing, Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: This book provides multiple suggestions, tips and ideas for improving the literacy skills of young children learning to read and write in braille.
Better Together: Building Relationships with People who have Visual Impairments and Autism Spectrum Disorder (or Atypical Social Disorder)(2008)(Cost)	L. Hagood	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Concept Development, Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: From the website: "The goal of this manual is to provide practical suggestions for teachers and parents who want to build important foundational relationships and teach social skills to children with visual impairments and autism or other types of atypical social development. Better Together provides a systematic scope and sequence of relationship-based goals and objectives, as well as examples of activities and strategies for teaching the objectives."
Braille Bee Spelling App (Review)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Technology	Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: Wonderbaby.org gives a review of the Braille Bee Spelling app, an app that helps blind and sighted kids and adults learn UEB braille. It is full of games, reviews, drills, etc.
Braille Book Files at TSBVI	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Accessible Books, Ebooks, Nemeth	Report a problem!
Description: This site provides teachers with over 700 book titles that can be downloaded in various formats.
Braille Bug	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Education the General Public, Family Resources	Report a problem!
Description: This site is devoted to public awareness about braille for children, includes on-line games and riddles.
Braille Fundamentals (2002)(Cost)	J. Cleveland, N. Levack, D. Sewell & R. Toy	Assessment, Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Curricula	Report a problem!
Description: Braille Fundamentals is a comprehensive program for teaching the Braille code. It is organized into 56 clusters of letters, numerals, contractions, short forms, punctuation and special signs, with specific clusters devoted to the reading and writing practice of previously learned contractions.
Braille Instruction found via the Perkins Scout	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides, Braille Production, Braille Publishers, Braille Writing, Braille/Print Books, Instructional Aids/Materials, Instructional Strategies, Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: Here is a web-based collection of information for braille instructors with countless links to resources available.
Braille is Beautiful (Cost)	B. Zaborowski	Compensatory/Access	Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Education the General Public	Report a problem!
Description: A kit and curriculum developed and distributed by NFB for school aged children with vision in grades 4-6 to promote braille literacy and social acceptance of visually impaired people.
Braille Literacy Curriculum (2000) (Cost)	D. Wormsley	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Development, Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: This book provides teaching strategies and instructional tips for teaching braille across the curriculum.
Braille Readiness Grid	A. McComskey	Assessment, Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood	Beginning Reading, Tactual Related, Tactual Sensitivities	Report a problem!
Description: Here is a grid showing the systematic learning progress of tactile skills in different areas of development.
Braille Transcribers' Kit for Math (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: Use these kits for the creation of various types of graphics.
Braille Writing Dot by Dot (APH Quota)	E. Pester & F. Otto	Compensatory/Access	Braille Writing, Slate & Stylus, Sports/Games	Report a problem!
Description: This program is designed to provide instruction in writing braille with either a braillewriter or a slate and stylus.Â This kit focuses on beginning writing skills.
Braille/Print Literacy Issues and the Learning Media Assessment (2003)	E. Lavinge & A. Adkins	Compensatory/Access	Learning Media Assessment	Report a problem!
Description: The authors help explain what a Learning Media Assessment entails, what decisions can be concluded with this type of assessment and what types of students will benefit from a print literacy program and a braille literacy program.
brailleSC.org	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Beginning Reading, Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Braille Writing, Education the General Public, Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: BrailleSC.org is an accessible website for individuals who are visually impaired and their families, friends, and educators. It provides a variety of articles and posts that emphasize the importance of braille literacy and provides strategies for other areas of the ECC as well, including, independent living skills, recreation & leisure, listening skills, etc.
Bridge to Braille (1997)(Cost)	C. Castellano & D. Kosman	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Family Resources	Report a problem!
Description: This is a practical step-by-step guide showing parents and teachers how to help blind children progress in literacy.
Bridging the Gap: Pre-Braille to Braille Reader (2016)	T. Fitch	Compensatory/Access	Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: An expert TVI presents examples of how to help young students increase tactile sensitivity in order to become competent and successful braille readers.
CAL - Creative Adaptations for Learning (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Aids/Materials	Report a problem!
Description: A company who produces braille and raised line materials for educational purposes.
Can Reading and Writing Braille Be Taught Effectively On An Itinerant Basis? (1995)	A. Koenig & J. Olmstead, E. Rex	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Itinerant Issues	Report a problem!
Description: This point/counterpoint feature evaluates braille literacy instruction in three commentaries by A. J. Koenig, J. E. Olmstead, and E. J. Rex. The commentaries indicate that itinerant instruction of braille skills can be effective with adequate student motivation and requisite skills, school staff and family support, vigilant focus on student needs, and adequate commitment of teaching time. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness 89 (4)Â pp. 101-108
Children's Braille Book Club (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Beginning Reading, Braille/Print Books, Recreational Reading	Report a problem!
Description: For $100 per year, receive a monthly children's book, from preschool to 3rd grade, in twin vision format (print and braille).
Communication for Students with Deafblindness, or Visual and Multiple Impairments	N/A	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Communication, Concept Development, Instructional Strategies, Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: TSBVI houses this informative website on the topic of teaching communication to those with deafblindness and visual and multiple impairments. Included are videos in the area of calendars and routines, educating those who work with students with visual impairments in areas such as building a calendar system, implementation and sample videos of actual students using calendars to bring meaning to their day.
Computer Generated Tactile Graphics	P. Van Geem	Compensatory/Access, Math, Social Studies, Technology	Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: This area of the TSBVI website discusses the how-to for making computer graphics plus gives a plethora of companies that provide materials for making the graphics.
Concept Development for Visually Handicapped Children: A Resource Guide . . . (Cost)	W. T. Lydon & M. L. McGraw	Compensatory/Access, O&M	Concept Development	Report a problem!
Description: This guide offers a framework for concept development for children who are visually impaired from kindergarten on.
Connecting the Dots: A Parent's Resource for Promoting Early Braille Literacy	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Family Resources	Report a problem!
Description: A free information kit for parents providing information on the braille code, braille books and how to make braille books.
Crafty Graphics II Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: Crafty Graphics Kit II provides supplemental tools to be used with the original Crafty Graphics: Stencil Embossing Kit.
Crafty Graphics, Stencil Embossing Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: From the website, "This kit contains stencils, embossing tools, and other items needed to create tactile graphics by dry pressure embossing. You supply your own light source to place underneath sheets to be embossed (for example, APH's Mini-Lite Box or natural light)."
Design to Learn	N/A	Assessment, Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Communication, Concept Development, Development-Communication, Instructional Strategies, Routines	Report a problem!
Description: This is a website from a small staff of researchers and special educators who work for the Oregon Institute on Disability and Development, a program of the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. They specialize in developing effective assessment and teaching strategies for children and adults with low-incidence disabilities. Various teaching guides are available for free download plus others are for purchase.
Determining the Reading Medium for Students with Visual Impairments: A Diagnostic Teaching Approach (1997)	A. Koenig & M. C. Holbrook	Assessment, Compensatory/Access	Learning Media Assessment	Report a problem!
Description: This article addresses difficulties involved when determining reading media for students with low vision and proposes guidelines for appropriate decision-making.
Developing Concepts with Children Who Are Deaf/Blind (2008)	B. Miles & B. McLetchie	Compensatory/Access, Deafblind	Concept Development	Report a problem!
Description: From the website,"Concepts are the ideas that give meaning to our world. This fact sheet discusses the process by which a deaf-blind child may develop their own unique concepts based on their personal experiences. Discussion involves the necessity of providing experiences to maximize a child's opportunity to develop concepts and the critical element of relationship in providing meaning."
DOTS for Braille Literacy	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies, Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: From the website: "This free newsletter includes information about braille products, strategies for teaching, and resources for teachers, parents, family members, and anyone interested in braille literacy. Our Summer 2015 issue concluded a 20 year run of DOTS. All issues are archived and available for your review and enjoyment."
ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments (2015) (Cost)	C. Allman, S. Lewis & S. Spungin	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Instructional Development, Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies, Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: From the publisher's website: "ECC Essentials is the first comprehensive book for teachers working to meet the unique learning needs of their students with visual impairments. It focuses on the education of children and adolescents in the expanded core curriculum by providing the rationale, suggestions, and strategies necessary to implement instruction. ECC Essentials gives teachers a road map for helping their students achieve success in school and life."
Elementary Reading Skills Continuum	TSBVI Teachers	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: This is a pre-reading skills and reading skills continuum for print and braille readers in grades K-5.
English Braille American Edition 1994	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides	Report a problem!
Description: This is the official code book for English Braille American Edition.
Experience Stories for Functionally Blind Pre-readers	M. Smith	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood	Beginning Reading, Pre-Braille, Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners	Report a problem!
Description: This brief article provides suggestions for making experience stories and the beginnings of using tactile symbols for meaning.
Experiential Learning: Activities for Concept Development (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood	Concept Development	Report a problem!
Description: From the website, "Activities in this guidebook are designed to help children learn through experience in a meaningful and fun way. Six developmental areas are addressed: cause and effect, hand-eye coordination (auditory-hand coordination), motor development, object permanence, sensory awareness, and spatial awareness. These are not the only areas where children can learn through experience. These concepts & skills, however, are six of the primary areas that need to be promoted in infants."
Foundations of Braille Literacy (1994) (Cost)	E. J. Rex, J. Koenig, D. P. Wormsley & R. L. Baker	Assessment, Compensatory/Access	Curricula, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: This book looks at what we know about braille as a medium for literacy, the ways in which we teach and assess braille reading and writing, and the needs that should be addressed in the future.
Good Tactile Graphic: DVD and Booklet (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math	Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: This presentation helps teachers and braillists improve their skills in the creation of tactile graphics.
Guidelines and Games for Teaching Efficient Braille Reading (Cost)	M. R. Olson & S. Mangold	Compensatory/Access	Games, Instructional Strategies, Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: This books provides parents, vision teachers, and regular classroom teachers with ideas for adapting a general reading program to the needs of braille readers. Activities and games offered provide enrichment to the traditional teaching of braille reading skills from the pre-school level through grade three. Suggestions for working with remedial readers, regardless of their ages, are also presented.
Instructional Strategies for Braille Literacy (1997)(Cost)	D. Wormsley & F.M. D'Andrea	Compensatory/Access	Dual Media, Instructional Aids/Materials, Instructional Development, Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies, Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: This book is a compilation of successful instructional strategies for teaching braille to blind and visually impaired students that will allow them to achieve braille literacy to the best of their abilities.
Is Listening to an Audio Book "Cheating"? (2016)	D. Willingham	Compensatory/Access	Auditory Skills	Report a problem!
Description: Written by an scientist studying education, Dr. WIllingham provides his editorial and blog on why audio learning should not be considered an enemy to reading but another avenue to access instruction and information. (Not VI specific)
Just Books Read Aloud	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Audio Books, Libraries	Report a problem!
Description: This website provides close to 1000 books that are video taped and read aloud. The appropriate pages are displayed as the reader moves through the book.
Kester Braille Reading Program (Cost)	Kester	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Instructional Aids/Materials	Report a problem!
Description: Subtitled "Braille Lessons for Sighted People", this manual gives a comprehensive overview of literary braille to persons involved in the teaching of braille including teachers, teaching assistants, and parents. It is designed to teach specific skills to beginning readers in the same sequence these skills are taught to their sighted companions, i.e. alphabet, numbers, three-letter words with the short vowel sound, and basic punctuation through reading & writing.Note: Updated to include UEB code
Learning Ally	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Accessible Books, Audio Books	Report a problem!
Description: This national library provides free downloadable books to students with a qualifying print disability. Textbooks are available for Texas students.
Learning to Listen/Listening to Learn (Cost)	L. Barclay	Compensatory/Access	Auditory Skills	Report a problem!
Description: This resource provides information about age-appropriate listening skills and how and what to instruct in those areas.
Listening Skills Inventory	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies, Instructional Support	Report a problem!
Description: A resource from the Learning Through Listening (Learning Ally) website that provides listening lessons, strategies and lesson plans in order to better teach listening skills. The sequence of skills follows the New York Learning Standards for English and Language Arts and is delineated according to Elementary, Intermediate and Commencement levels.
Literacy for Students with Intellectual or Multiple Disabilities, Part 1: Components (2016)	T. Fitch	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Functional Braille	Report a problem!
Description: The author provides information on 9 different components of a successful literacy program instructing those with MIVI that are learning braille.
Literacy for Students with Low Vision: A Framework for Delivering Instruction (2002)	A. Corn & A. Koenig	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Planning, Students with Low Vision	Report a problem!
Description: 'This study identified the levels of direct and consultative instructional services needed for teaching literacy skills to students with low vision. The findings support the need to provide consistent, direct instruction to students with low vision in almost all areas of literacy and literacy-related skills.' Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness 96 (5) pp. 305-321 May 2002
Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy Skills in Students with Low Vision (Cost)	F. M. D'Andrea and C. Farrenkoft (Eds.)	Compensatory/Access	Low Vision Device Training, Students with Low Vision, Vision Efficiency Training	Report a problem!
Description: This book gives tips on helping students with low vision increase their literacy skills.Ã?Â Topics include assessment, low vision devices, low vision exams and more.
Low Vision: Access to Print (2013)	L. Gardner & A. Corn	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	CEC	Report a problem!
Description: Position Paper from the Division on Visual Impairments, Council For Exceptional Children supporting the use of standard print with low vision devices.
LRS Large Print Reproductions (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Accessible Books, Instructional Aids/Materials, Large Print Books, Recreational Reading	Report a problem!
Description: This company can enlarge books in black and white or color.
Motor Activities To Encourage Pre-Braille Skills	D. Sewell	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood	Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: This expert gives a list of activities to work on for the development of motor skills needed for pre-braille skills.
Move, Touch, Read!	W. Drezek	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood	Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: A leader in the area of early childhood development provides on-line sample units and activities used to promote braille literacy in young children with visual impairments
Moving Ahead Series Storybooks (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Braille/Print Books	Report a problem!
Description: Moving Ahead storybooks are designed for students who have some experience with simple tactile representations and are ready for the next level of emergent literacy. Moving Ahead storybooks introduce symbolic representation, more complex illustrations, and an increased emphasis on text by combining tactile pictures, print/braille text, and a story.
National Braille Press (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Braille Publishers, Braille/Print Books, Play, Pre-Braille, Recreational Reading, Sensory Training	Report a problem!
Description: Nonprofit braille printing and publishing house. It offers a braille book-of-the-month club for children ages preschool to 2nd grade as well as other programs for students and educators, including Great Expectations, "a new literacy program for blind kids".
Object Books	M. Smith, S. Shaffer & D. Sewell	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood	Pre-Braille, Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners	Report a problem!
Description: This document defines the object book and provides examples of how and when to have a student create one.
Paths to Literacy	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math	Beginning Reading, Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Braille Writing, Emergent Literacy Skills, Functional Braille, Learning Media Assessment, Pre-Braille, Writing Skills	Report a problem!
Description: This is a joint website created by the Perkins School for the Blind and TSBVI. Paths to Literacy provides information, strategies, resources, and research on a full range of areas related to literacy, including math, dual media, writing, ESL, and auditory. Literacy is promoted for all ages and levels, including students with multiple impairments. A forum can also be found here.
Patterns Prebraille Program (APH Quota)	H. Caton, E. Pester, E. J. Bradley & K. S. Coy	Compensatory/Access	Curricula, Emergent Literacy Skills	Report a problem!
Description: This program is designed to help children before they begin a basic braille reading program. It helps build a child's auditory, tactual, conceptual, and language abilities in preparation for braille reading and math.
Picture Maker: Wheatley Tactile Diagramming Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math, O&M	Concept Development, Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: This diagramming kit is excellent to create basic maps, charts, shapes, and art projects. It is very useful for O&M instructors and also for teachers with young students learning basic shape and numeracy concepts; especially good for concept development, math skills, & tactile graphics; an excellent tool for use in general education classrooms.
QuickTac	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Technology	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: QuickTac is a free program available from Duxbury Systems Inc. It can be used to make simple tactile graphics.
Read How You Want, Your Customized Book Source (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Accessible Books	Report a problem!
Description: A private Australian company that sells books in alternate formats such as braille, audio, and large print; the largest print size offered is 24 point; includes fiction, many classics.
Reading For Everyone: Expanding Literacy Options (2001)	C. Miller & A. Rash	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Grade 1 Braille	Report a problem!
Description: The theory of teaching uncontracted braille to students with multiple impairments is discussed.
Reading Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments: A Classroom Teacher's Guide (2008)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Adaptive Tools/Technology, Instructional Support, Low Vision Solutions, Students with Low Vision	Report a problem!
Description: From SET-BC, this 26-page resource guide is written specifically for general education teachers and is available as a free download; includes explanations of different types of reading tools that a student with a visual impairment may use. Emphasis is placed on the individualized needs of the student. Also see "Writing Strategies" from same source.
Recorded Books, LLC (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Accessible Books, Audio Books, Family Resources, Recreational Reading	Report a problem!
Description: This is a large catalog of complete and unabridged audiobooks. It also includes Accelerated Reader titles, Ebooks and Emagazines.
Resources for Preparing Quality Tactile Graphics	P. Van Geem	Compensatory/Access, Science, Social Studies		Report a problem!
Description: Here is a list of resources beneficial to those who create tactile graphics in the area of math, science, social studies and literacy.
Resources for Unified English Braille (UEB)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides, Braille Production	Report a problem!
Description: Region 10 ESC provides an expanded list of resources to help TVIs and braille transcriptionists implement the UEB code.
SAM: Symbols and Meaning (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood, MIVI	Communication, Concept Development, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: A kit for students with visual and multiple impairments and pre-school children with visual impairments who are just beginning to use symbols -- the late sensorimotor, early preoperational stage of cognitive development.
Seedlings, Braille Books for Children (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Braille Publishers, Braille/Print Books, Play, Pre-Braille, Recreational Reading	Report a problem!
Description: This is a catalog of braille books for children (available in uncontracted and contracted braille).
Sensory Learning Kit (SLK) (APH Quota)	M. Smith	Assessment, Compensatory/Access, MIVI, Self Determination	Choice and Decision Making, Concept Development, Routines	Report a problem!
Description: From the website, "This kit is for use in the development of skills for learners with the most significant challenges. Is an extensive set of sensory items and written materials that help the most significantly challenged learners increase their curiosity and develop specific skills. Tools in this kit may be used to help create daily schedules, lesson plans, and alternative assessments for play or functional routines."
ShareBraille	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Braille/Print Books, Instructional Aids/Materials	Report a problem!
Description: ShareBraille is a division of NFB offering the exchange of donated braille books in order to build braille literacy.
Speakaboos	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Recreation and Leisure	Accessible Books, Audio Books, Recreational Reading	Report a problem!
Description: This website offers free visual stories for young children with audio and music. Categories include nursery rhymes, fables, folk stories and songs. (Not VI Specific)
STACS: Standardized Tactile Augmentative Communication Symbols Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Communication, Comprehensive Assessment	Report a problem!
Description: From the APH website, "STACS . . .helps learning partners (teachers, parents, peers, etc.) teach a beginning standardized vocabulary. Teachers then introduce additional individualized symbols as needed. The STACS instruction manual and included online videos show learning partners how to implement symbols effectively as a part of their learner's communication system.
Suggestions for Working with Braille Students in a Regular Classroom	E. Rao	Compensatory/Access	Inservice for Teachers and Administrators	Report a problem!
Description: Written for the general educator, this document provides a good overview of working with a braille student.
Swail Dot Inverter (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, O&M	Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: This kit is for the simple construction of diagrams, graphs, and maps by embossing a series of single dots; can be used for creating tactile graphics and also for marking pages, creating labels, etc.
Tack-Tiles (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Aids/Materials	Report a problem!
Description: A teaching tool similar to Lego Blocks used for improving braille literacy skills.
Tactile Alphabet Book (2017)	K. Schildbach	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood, Family Resources	Braille/Print Books	Report a problem!
Description: Directions from a mom of a visually impaired pre-schooler are given for making a tactile ABC book. Specifics for including braille and print and an object are given.
Tactile Graphics (1992) (Cost)	P. K. Edman	Compensatory/Access, Math, Science	Instructional Strategies, Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps, Tactual Sensitivities	Report a problem!
Description: This is a comprehensive sourcebook for translating visual information into a three-dimensional form that blind and visually impaired persons can understand.
Tactile Graphics Image Library at APH	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math, O&M, Science, Social Studies	Instructional Aids/Materials, Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: This library has a plethera of images that can be downloaded for creating tactile graphics for students with visual impairments.
Tactile Graphics Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math, Science	Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: Extensive kit for making maps, graphs, diagrams, etc. Contains braille slate and stylus, aluminum foil and guidebook with helpful information on tactile skills.
Tactile Graphics Starter Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math, Science	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: This kit is for the beginning tactile graphics maker or for student-made graphics. It includes a slate and stylus and manual.
Tactile Graphics, An Overview and Resource Guide (1996)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Math, Science	Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: From the introduction to the article: "This article is intended primarily for parents, teachers, and friends of blind people. It introduces the reader to some of the possibilities and to some limitations of using tactile graphics for conveying information to blind people. A number of methods for producing tactile graphics are described. A resource list of useful tools, supplies, and technological methods and devices is given."
Tactile Library	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Technology	Instructional Aids/Materials, Tactile Graphics, Tactile Maps	Report a problem!
Description: Tactile Library provides a free library of diagrams broken down into categories by age and topic.
Tactile Maps: New Materials and Improved Designs (1997) (Cost)	B. Horsfall	Compensatory/Access, O&M	Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: This article evaluates the relative strengths of different ways to make tactile maps, including new photopolymers (plastics that harden with exposure to light) and computer-assisted design (CAD). Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, (91)2, pp. 61-65. (January/February 1997)
Tactile Strategies for Children Who Have Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities: Promoting Communication and Learning Skills (2006) (Cost)	D. Chen & J. E. Downing	Compensatory/Access, Early Childhood, MIVI	Concept Development, Routines, Tactual Related	Report a problem!
Description: For teachers and parents to help promote growth, development, and communication of children with visual impairments and multiple disabilities to plan interventions.
Tactile Symbols (Videos) from the TSBVI Media Library	N/A	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Concept Development, Instructional Development, Instructional Planning, Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners	Report a problem!
Description: TSBVI houses numerous videos in the area of tactile symbol systems educating those who work with students with visual impairments in areas such as making tactile symbols, creating a calendar system, and implementation and videos of actual students using tactile symbols to bring meaning to their day.
Teaching Braille Mechanics to Students with CP or Decreased Tactile Sensitivity (2017)	C. Cushman	Compensatory/Access, MIVI	Beginning Reading, Braille Writing	Report a problem!
Description: Great suggestions on how to increase dexterity and hand strength, two important factors that impact braille reading and writing.
Teaching Emergent Literacy Skills To Kindergarten Students in a Braille/Print Program	D. McGregor & C. Farrenkopf	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Instructional Planning, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: Two VI professionals discuss tips for itinerant teachers in teaching beginning braille. (Article is from 2002 AER International Conference)
Teaching Faster Braille Reading in the Primary Grades (1977)	M. R. Olson	Compensatory/Access	Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: Recent studies have reported considerable success in teaching the visually handicapped techniques of rapid reading. Most of the braille readers participating in these studies had been reading for several years; little if any efforts have been made toward application of rapid reading principles in the primary grades. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 71(3) 122-124.
Teaching Signature Writing to Those Who Are Visually Impaired (Cost)	S. Mangold & M.E. Pesavento	Compensatory/Access	Signature Writing	Report a problem!
Description: This program offers a creative teaching method that will help teach students as well as adults how to make an acceptable legal signature. It is composed of a 35 minute video and a supplementary booklet which is available in print, large print, and braille.
Teaching the Braille Slate and Stylus:A Manual for Mastery (Cost)	P. N. Mangold	Compensatory/Access	Slate & Stylus	Report a problem!
Description: This manual or DVD contains all the information you will need to become, or help someone else become a proficient slate user.
TEKS for Listening Skills	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Sensory Efficiency	Instructional Development	Report a problem!
Description: A compiled list of TEKS that are related to listening skill development. Great to use when creating IEPs. (Texas specific and subject to change)
Texas State Library - Talking Book Program	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Accessible Books, Audio Books, Braille/Print Books, Family Resources, Large Print Books, Music, Recreational Reading	Report a problem!
Description: The TSL program allows visually and physically impaired patrons to choose free books from a national library system in braille, large type or audio format. (Texas students only)
The Best Braille Children's Book Resources on the Internet	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Braille Publishers	Report a problem!
Description: Wonderbaby.org provides a comprehensive list for families looking for sources of braille books for purchase and for free.
The Blind Reader's Page	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Recreation and Leisure	Accessible Books, Internet and Accessibility, Parent Resources, Recreation, Sports/Games	Report a problem!
Description: The Blind Reader's Page offers a wide variety of information in alternative formats for those with print disabilities.
The Braille Connection:A Braille Reading and Writing Program for Former Print Users (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Instruction of Adventitiously Blind	Report a problem!
Description: This curriculum is designed to teach braille to adult and teenage print readers with acquired blindness (former print readers). It begins with uncontracted braille then advances to contracted braille.
The Braille Enthusiast's Dictionary (Cost)	A. J. Koenig & M. C. Holbrook	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides, Instructional Aids/Materials, Reference	Report a problem!
Description: This dictionary provides braille transcriptions for more than 29,000 English words. It also provides syllable divisions to help maximize line usage. EBAE not UEB
The Braille Enthusiast's Dictionary UEB Edition (2016) (Cost)	M.C. Holbrook & F.M. D'Andrea	Compensatory/Access, Professional Resources	Braille Production	Report a problem!
Description: A great resource for those needing help with the transition from EBAE to UEB braille translation. This book if full of examples of usage and explanation of the change of rules in using UEB.
The Mangold Developmental Program of Tactile Perception and Braille Letter Recognition (Cost)	S. Mangold	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Pre-Braille, Tactual Sensitivities	Report a problem!
Description: The program is designed to promote efficient two-handed braille reading and decrease undesirable scrubbing and back-tracking behaviors, as well as errors in braille letter recognition.
The National Federation of the Blind Braille Reading Pals Club: A Pre-literacy Program for Blind and Low Vision Children Ages Infant to Seven	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Beginning Reading, Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Braille/Print Books, Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: This program encourages parents to take an active roll in the braille literacy of their child.
The Princeton Braillists (Costs)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Science, Social Studies	Tactile Graphics	Report a problem!
Description: From the website, "The Princeton Braillists is a small group of senior citizen volunteers whose goal is to make high quality but inexpensive tactile maps and drawings for blind people of all ages."
Tips and Tools for Teaching Beginning Braille Skills (2016)	C. Brown	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading	Report a problem!
Description: From the website, "These tips and tools are designed to address skills for the young beginning braille reader who is ready to start braille instruction and who has received preschool instruction on concept development."
Tips for Teaching Slate and Stylus (2005)	E. Rao	Compensatory/Access	Slate & Stylus	Report a problem!
Description: A great quick reference to successfully teaching Slate and Stylus skills
Tips to Teach Listening Skills	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Auditory Skills	Report a problem!
Description: This article provides tips for those wanting students to improve their listening skills. Tips are broken down according to age and grade level.
Touch Graphics Inc. (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Technology	Adaptive Tools/Technology, Tactual Related, Technology	Report a problem!
Description: This company produces the Talking Tactile Tablet, the Wii Cane and the SAL braille tutor and is a leader in cutting edge technology for the blind and visually impaired.
Tumblebooks (Cost)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Accessible Books, Audio Books, Large Print Books, Libraries	Report a problem!
Description: A low cost subscription service available to libraries that provides on-line books with variable text sizes and an audio component.
Turbo Phonics (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access, Technology	Beginning Reading, Instructional Aids/Materials	Report a problem!
Description: This is a computer based reading program designed to help young low vision students attain reading skills.
Un's The One - Uncontracted Braille FUNdamententals (Cost)	D. Sewell & A. Rash	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Braille Writing, Instructional Aids/Materials	Report a problem!
Description: Un's The One is a comprehensive program for teaching uncontracted braille. The sequence for introducing the braille configurations has been organized into 16 clusters of letters, numerals, punctuation, and special signs, with the last cluster devoted to reading practice. Also included in this curriculum are a Pre-Braille Assessment, a Braille checklist and ideas for games.
Using Readers (2004)	C. Castellano	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Auditory Skills, Instructional Strategies	Report a problem!
Description: The author, a seasoned veteran teacher of children with visual impairments, gives tips on how a student uses a reader and how he goes about getting accustomed to having a live reader.
What a Concept (2000)	J. Dirkel	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Concept Development	Report a problem!
Description: An outstanding article written for parents by an expert in the field of communication and visual impairments. Mr. Dirkel speaks simply about concept development as it relates to language and child development.
Where to Find Braille Books for Children (2016)	M. Garber	Compensatory/Access, Family Resources	Braille Publishers, Braille/Print Books	Report a problem!
Description: This article, written for parents, tells of the top companies that sell or distribute braille children's books.
Word PlayHouse Kit (APH Quota)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Beginning Reading, Instructional Aids/Materials, Pre-Braille	Report a problem!
Description: From the catalog, 'Word PlayHouse helps students focus on phonics, spelling and phonemic awareness.' It can be used with blind and low vision students.
Writing Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments: A Classroom Teacher's Guide (2008)	N/A	Compensatory/Access	Adaptive Tools/Technology, Braille Writing, Instructional Support, Low Vision Solutions, Writing Skills	Report a problem!
Description: This guide from SET-BC is written specifically for the regular education teacher as an explanation of the different tools a student with a visual impairment may use in the classroom. The emphasis is on the unique, individualized needs of the student.