Tag: inclusion

Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Activity Ideas for Students

Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Activity Ideas for Students

Free activity ideas for Global Accessibility Awareness Day that teach students about disability, assistive technology, and digital accessibility

How To Make Easter Egg Hunts Accessible For Low Vision

How To Make Easter Egg Hunts Accessible For Low Vision

Here are my favorite tips for how to make Easter egg hunts accessible for low vision kids, focusing on low cost tools and adapting existing easter egg hunt materials

Creating Audio Description For College Fight Song

Creating Audio Description For College Fight Song

Make school spirit accessible to all! Learn how to create audio description for college fight song and gameday cheers for low vision and blind students

How I Play In GMU Green Machine/Pep Band With Low Vision

How I Play In GMU Green Machine/Pep Band With Low Vision

As an undergrad student at George Mason University, I was a member of the GMU Green Machine pep band and played bass clarinet in the stands for many home basketball games and other university events. Being in Green Machine introduced me to many amazing friends,…

OCR Scanner Apps For Low Vision Students

OCR Scanner Apps For Low Vision Students

A list of OCR scanner apps for low vision students, useful for extracting text that can be read out loud with text-to-speech or displayed in large print.

Ten Lessons My TVI Taught Me

Ten Lessons My TVI Taught Me

A must-read for teachers of students with visual impairments, here are lessons my TVI taught me as a low vision student and resources for visually impaired students

Concert Band and Low Vision Accommodations

Concert Band and Low Vision Accommodations

Tips for musicians participating in concert band programs with visual impairment, based on my experiences as a clarinet player with low vision

Participating In Drama and Theater Programs With Low Vision

Participating In Drama and Theater Programs With Low Vision

Tips and strategies for supporting students with visual impairments on stage in theater and drama programs, from a student with low vision

Ten Questions to Ask When Choosing a College

Ten Questions to Ask When Choosing a College

Questions to ask yourself and others in order to find the best college for your needs

School Cafeterias and Low Vision

School Cafeterias and Low Vision

Sometime around sixth grade, I came to the conclusion that the combination of school cafeterias and low vision contributed to a great deal of frustration for me at school. Other than the school gym, the cafeteria was one of the places at school where I…

Preferential Seating and Low Vision

Preferential Seating and Low Vision

How do you choose a seat in class with low vision? Here are some things I think about when using preferential seating accommodations in K-12 and college classrooms as a low vision student

How I Talk About Disability With New Friends

How I Talk About Disability With New Friends

I’m often one of the first people that people at my school meet that has low vision or that lives with a chronic illness. While there are several other students that have vision loss or that live with other invisible disabilities, I have chosen to…