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Preschool Art Activity Tips For Children With Visual Impairments

With small adaptations, children with visual impairments can participate fully in art activities.

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Community Success Book

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Illustrated encyclopedia of community-based social skills

Illustrated encyclopedia of community-based social skills Help students experience community success! Sixty commonplace community activities, like using restrooms, crossing streets and shopping at a department store, are illustrated step-by-step. Appropriate corresponding social skills are integrated into each activity. For example, when shopping at the department store, students learn: Communication with store clerks, appropriate handling of display items, when to ask for help and more. Community Success activities are organized into eight categories: At home, any place, going places, shopping, eating out, appointments, money matters and potpourri. All pages are reproducible. Involve users in the three-step training process: Review, rehearse and cue. First students review the activity. Then they rehearse difficult skills. Finally, they perform the activity using pictures as helpful cues. Measure student performance with easy to use reports. Community Success illustrates everyday activities (crossing streets) and occasional ones (staying at a hotel). Social skills always picture "good" and "not so good" examples. 177 pgs., 1997.

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Typical Access Profile

Auditory

Normal
Low
Extremely Low
Not Using Hearing
Hyper-Acute

Vision

Normal
Low
Extremely Low
Not Using Vision

Gross Motor

All
Some
Few
Not Using Gross Motor

Fine Motor

All
Some
Few
Not Using Fine Motor

Developmental Age Range

0 - 2
3 - 5
6 - 8
9 - 12
13 and Over

Language

Typical
Some Spoken
Receptive Only
Sign
Assistive/Augmentitive
Not Using Language
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Talking about hearing impairment

Give more, not different. If a child has a hearing impairment, we sometimes slip in to an exaggerated communications mode. We must resist! Speak normally, as exaggerated lip movements are difficult to read. Adult's should instead provide visual cues that accompanies normal speech, without distorting the message with uncommon motions.

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