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How Amazon Alexa Can Help You Study For Exams

How Amazon Alexa Can Help You Study For Exams

Six ways Amazon Alexa can help with homework, great for auditory learners and blind/visually impaired students

How To Create A DonorsChoose Project For Visual Impairment

How To Create A DonorsChoose Project For Visual Impairment

Within the last year, DonorsChoose has made it easier for teachers to create projects and add tags to help highlight projects that benefit students with disabilities, including students with visual impairments (inclusive of blind/low vision). As a donor, I often seek out projects that are…

Five Accessible Calculator Apps For Low Vision

Five Accessible Calculator Apps For Low Vision

I was first introduced to the world of calculator applications for low vision when I was in middle school and discovered that I couldn’t see the graphing calculator that was used in my Algebra 1 class. The buttons on the calculator had a small font…

Learning to Self-Advocate

Learning to Self-Advocate

My biggest IEP goal, learning to self advocate, and how it has helped me more than I ever imagined

Why I Prefer My Schoolwork Digitally: Updated Edition

Why I Prefer My Schoolwork Digitally: Updated Edition

Why I prefer to receive digital accessible materials instead of print ones

20+ Visual Impairment Project Ideas For DonorsChoose

20+ Visual Impairment Project Ideas For DonorsChoose

I’ve worked with DonorsChoose in a variety of different ways over the years, including helping teachers create their own classroom projects, researching tools that can be used by students with disabilities in the classroom, and donating to DonorsChoose projects as an individual or through a…

Classroom Technology That Benefits Low Vision Students

Classroom Technology That Benefits Low Vision Students

When designing a classroom with inclusion in mind, there are several different types of classroom technology that can help all learners, but especially learners that have low vision. I had a high school teacher that commented on how modifying assignments and classroom tech for one…

Environmental Accommodations For Low Vision Students

Environmental Accommodations For Low Vision Students

I’ve talked a lot about accommodations for low vision students on my website, though many of my posts have focused on accommodations for print materials or the use of assistive technology. Another important consideration for helping low vision students to thrive in the classroom is…

Tips For Handling Academic Ableism In The Classroom

Tips For Handling Academic Ableism In The Classroom

When I was in middle school, I began to experience academic ableism in the classroom, primarily from my teachers. While I was fortunate to have many wonderful teachers who helped me to develop a love of learning and a sense of belonging in the classroom,…

College Interview Tips For Disabled Students

College Interview Tips For Disabled Students

My tips for being successful in college admission interviews

Taking Online English Classes With Low Vision

Taking Online English Classes With Low Vision

Over the last five years, I have had the opportunity to take two different online English classes and was able to earn high grades in both of them. While I naturally enjoy reading and writing, one of the challenges I had to overcome in taking…

Exploring Microsoft 3D Models For Low Vision Students

Exploring Microsoft 3D Models For Low Vision Students

A few months ago, I was working with a student with low vision who was learning about different animals in their class. They were having trouble with zooming in on pictures of the animals as the images themselves were not in high resolution and frequently…

Creating Audio Description For Science Experiments With YouDescribe

Creating Audio Description For Science Experiments With YouDescribe

Today, I received a question from a science teacher asking if I had any tips for creating audio description for science experiments and science lab videos. Since they were going to be posting videos of science experiments to a class website, they wanted to ensure…

Socratic App Accessibility Review

Socratic App Accessibility Review

As a college student studying data science, I have to have a basic understanding of different subjects and topics so that I can better understand the data I am working with and how to best create a simulation or analyze the data for a given…

How I Create Citations For Research Papers

How I Create Citations For Research Papers

Over the years, I have had several awesome teachers and professors who have helped me learn how to write essays and research papers for my classes quickly and efficiently. Because of them, I have earned consistently high scores on all of my writing assignments and…