Expanded Core Curriculum Content Areas Resource Mapping
Content Area / Assessments / Teaching Curriculum / Resources / Possible Gaps /Assistive Technology / § EVALS3
§ WIAT model3
§ Assistive Technology for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired: A Guide to Assessment2 / § Foundations of Education 2
§ 2008 Access World Guide to Assistive Technology Products2
§ Itinerant Teaching: Tricks of the Trade for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments2
Technology / § EVALS3
§ Assistive Technology for Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired: A Guide to Assessment2 / § Talking Typer1
§ Learn Keys1
§ Braille + Mobile Manager1
§ Refreshable Braille1
§ Verbal View of Windows1
§ / § Foundations of Education2
Career Education / § EVALS3 / § Hands On1
§ Prevocational Skills Development Materials1
§ Going Places1
§ Transition Tote System1
§ Going Places1 / § Foundations of Education2
§ Business Owners who are Blind or Visually Impaired2
§ Career Perspectives2
§ College Bound2
§ A Practical Guide to the ADA and Visual Impairment2
§ Health Care Professionals who are Blind or Visually Impaired2
§ Jobs to be Proud Of
§ Skills for Success2
§ Teachers who are Blind or Visually Impaired2
§ A Parent’s Guide to Special Education for Children with Visual Impairments2
Compensatory / § EVALS3
§ Assessment of Braille Literacy Skills (ABLS)5
§ Brigance1
§ Key Math1
§ K-Fast1
§ Woodcock-Johnson1
§ Growing Up1
§ Assessment Kit 3 / § Building On Patterns1
§ Patterns1
§ Braille writing Dot by Dot1
§ Calendar System1
§ Tactile Treasures1
§ Move, Touch & Do1
§ Growing Up1
§ Effective Use of Objects1
§ PATTER1
§ Wilson Reading System1
§ Turbo Phonics1
§ Word Play House1
§ StackUps1
§ Math Builders (1,6) 1
§ Focus in Math1
§ Beginning Abacus1
§ Sense of Science Series1
§ Address Earth1
§ Maps Represent Real Places1
§ Recognizing Landforms1
§ Walk/Run for Fitness1
§ Jump Rope to Fitness1
§ Expandable Calendar Boxes1
§ Tactile Connections1
§ Fun Braille1
§ Braille Contraction Recognition1
§ Touch and Tell1
§ Freund Longhand Writing1
§ Web Chase1
§ Scattered Crowns1
§ Braille Fundamental3
§ Un’s the One3 / § Foundations of Education2
§ Braille Literacy: A functional Approach 2
§ Reach Out & Teach2
§ Collaborative Assessment: Working with Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired, Including Those with Multiple Impairments2
§ Foundations of Braille Literacy2
§ Guidelines & Games for Teaching Efficient Braille Reading2
§ Hand in Hand: Essentials of Communication and O&M for students who are deafblind2
§ Instructional strategies for Braille Literacy2
§ Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy Skills in Students with Low Vision2
§ Making the Most of Early Communication2
§ Focused On: Social Skills2
§ How to Thrive, Not Just Survive2
§ Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments2
§ Beginning with Braille: Firsthand Experiences with a Balanced Approach to Literacy 2
Independent Living / § EVALS3
§ Brigance1
§ Oregon Project4
§ INSITE7 / § Sherlock Talking Label Identifier1
§ Making Picture Recipes1
§ Money Handling & Budgeting1
§ Money Talks1
§ Reclaiming Independece1
§ Independent Living Series3
§ INSITE7
§ Oregon Project 4 / § Foundations of Education2
§ How to Thrive, Not Just Survive2
§ Early Focus: Working with Young Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired2
§ Toward Independence: The Use of Instructional Objectives in Teaching Daily Living Skills2
§ Reach Out and Teach2
O&M / § EVALS3
§ TAPS3
§ Twist, Turn, & Learn1
§ PATTER1 / § TAPS3
§ Mini Guide1
§ K-Sonar Curriculum Guide1
§ Chang Kit1
§ Picture Maker: Wheatley Board1
§ PATTER1
§ Walk/Run for Fitness1
§ Jump Rope to Fitness1
§ Miniguide US1
§ O&M Tactile Graphics1 / § Foundations of Education2
§ Imagining the Possibilities2
§ Independent without Sight or Sound2
§ Early Focus: Working with Young Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired and Their Families2
§ An Orientation & Mobility Primer for Families and Young Children2
§ O&M Techniques: A Guide for the Practitioner2
§ Reach Out and Teach2
§ English/Spanish Basics for O&M Instructors2
§ Collaborative Assessment2
§ Foundations of Orientation and Mobility2
§ Hand in Hand
§ How to Thrive, Not Just Survive 2
§ The Art & Science of Teaching O&M2
§ Simon Says Is not the Only Game2
§ Teaching O&M in the Schools: An Instructor’s Companion2
Recreation/Leisure / § EVALS3 / § Guided Art Stories1
§ Time for Art Projects1
§ Portable Sound Source1
§ Walk/Run for Fitness1
§ Jump Rope to Fitness1
§ Armadillo Army Software1
§ Termite Torpedo Software1
§ Toodle Tiles1
§ Web Chase1
§ Game Kit1
§ Wooden Constructo Sets1
§ Independent Living Series3 / § Foundations of Education2
§ Art Beyond Sight: A Resource Guide2
§ Creative Recreation for Blind and Visually Impaired Adults2
§ How to Thrive, Not Just Survive2
§ Reaching Out: A Creative Access Guide for Designing Exhibits & Cultural Services for Persons who are Blind or Visually Impaired2
Self-Determination / § EVALS3
§ PATTER1
§ Oregon Project4 / § PATTER1
§ Web Chase1
§ Empowered 3 / § Foundations of Education 2
§ College Bound2
§ Skills for Success2
§ Teaching Social Skills to Students with Visual Impairments2
§ A Parent’s Guide to Special Education for Children with Visual Impairements2
§ Loving You1
Sensory Efficiency
Auditory / § EVALS3
§ Sensory Learning Kit1
§ INSITE7
§ Growing Up 8
§ Oregon Project4 / § Listen & Think1
§ Sensory Learning Kit1
§ SAM 1
§ Guided Art Stories1
§ Portable Sound Source1 / § Foundations of Education 2
Tactual / § EVALS3
§ Tactile Treasures1
§ INSITE7 / § Setting the Stage1
§ Sensory Learning Kit
§ SAM1
§ Tactile Treasures1
§ Twist, Turn, Learn1
§ Tangle Toy1
§ Rolling into Place1
§ StackUps1
§ Basic Science Tactile Graphics1
§ Basic Tactile Anatomy1 Atlas
§ World at your Fingers1
§ Address Earth1
§ Maps Represent Real Places1
§ Time for Art1
§ Tactile Connections1
§ Touch and Tell1
§ Teaching Touch1
§ Draftsman Tactile Drawing Board1
§ Graphic Art Tape1
§ O&M Tactile Graphics1
§ Picture Maker: Wheatley Board1
§ Students who are Deafblind using APH Products1
§ Scattered Crowns1 / § Foundations of Education2
§ Tactile Leaning Strategies2
§ Hand in Hand2
§ Independence without Sight or Sound2
§ Tactile Graphics
§ Tactile Leaning Strategies
Visual / § EVALS3
§ FVALMA1
§ ISAVE1
§ Sensory Learning Kit1
§ TOAD1
§ Vision Tests for Infants2
§ INSITE7
§ Growing Up 8
§ Oregon Project4 / § Envision (I & II) 1
§ Program to Develop Efficiency in Visual Functioning1
§ Sensory Learning Kit1
§ SAM1
§ Sense of Science Series1
§ Let’s See1
§ Light Box Activity Guide1
§ INSITE7
§ Growing Up 8
§ Oregon Project4 / § Foundations of Education 2
§ What Can Baby See? 2
§ Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairments2
§ Cortical Visual Impairment2
§ Early Focus: Working with Young Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired and Their Families2
§ Essential Elements in Early Intervention2
§ Foundations of Low Vision2
§ Functional Vision: A Practitioner’s Guide2
§ Independence without Sight of Sound2
§ Looking to Learn2
§ Preschool Vision Stimulation2
§ InFocus with Low Vision Kit 6
§ Ben and Buzzy's Busy Days6
Social Interaction / § INSITE7
§ Oregon Project 4
§ Growing Up 8
§ Sensory Learning Kit1
§ EVALS3
§ PATTER1 / § PATTER1
§ Independent Living Series3
§ Getting to Know You---Social Skills/Ability Awareness Curriculum 1
§ Sensory Learning Kit1
§ INSITE7
§ Oregon Project4
§ Growing Up 8 / § Foundations of Education 2
§ Development of Social Skills by Blind and Visually Impaired Students2
§ Web Chase1
The items cited above are available from the following:
1. American Printing House for the Blind. www.aph.org
2. American Foundation for the Blind Press www.afb.org
3. Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Curriculum Department. http://www.tsbvi.edu/curriculum-a-publications
4. The Oregon Project for Preschool Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired. South Oregon Education Service District, http://www.soesd.k12.or.us/sectionindex.asp?sectionid=132
5. Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School. Available through Educational Service Center- Region 4 http://www.region4store.com/Catalog.aspx?catid=347927&itmid=348557
6. Education Service Center – Region 4. http://www.region4store.com/Catalog.aspx?catid=347927&itmid=669829
7. SKI-HI Institute, Utah State University. http://skihi.org/INSITE.html
8. Growing Up. Reference to be added by authors
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