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Everyone Needs a Role Model

An elementary student working with an older student to learn about a trumpet by feeling the buttons.

Your child might already have a role model. This is someone they really admire and want to be like. It could be a family member, like an older cousin, or someone at school, like a favorite teacher. Sometimes, a role model is someone famous they know about from books or TV, like a tennis player […]

Reading and Making Tactile Books with Your Child

Hands using scissors to cut paper with tactile materials behind to make a book.

Reading to your child helps them in many ways. It teaches new ideas, improves talking skills, and prepares them for learning to read. If your child is blind or has low vision, you can make reading more fun by using books with things to touch. This is called tactile reading. Even if your child has […]

Helping Students Who Are Blind or Low Vision Manage Classroom Work and Homework

Cute happy schoolgirl puts stationery in a backpack.

Teachers and parents sometimes find it hard to decide or agree on how much classroom work and homework to require of a student with blindness or low vision. Your child’s teachers may shorten assignments or extend deadlines occasionally. If that happens frequently, your child might begin to expect the same sort of treatment in high […]

Building Self-Esteem in Children Who Are Blind or Low Vision

Young girl facing outside with her reflection of herself in the window.

Self-esteem has a strong impact on all aspects of a person’s life. If your child has self-esteem, in general, feels good about themself and their accomplishments. Self-esteem provides a foundation for personal growth and development. Children with high levels of self-esteem are more likely to have confidence in their own judgment and be willing to […]

Encouraging Listening in the Kindergarten Classroom for Children Who Are Blind or Low Vision

From the book Learning to Listen/Listening to Learn: Teaching Listening Skills to Students with Visual Impairments edited by Lizbeth A. Barclay. By kindergarten, it is important that most of the basic auditory perception and discrimination skills be in place for children with blindness or low vision as academics are beginning in earnest. Children must maintain […]