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Helping Your Preschooler Practice Orientation and Mobility Skills

A preschooler walking in the hall with a cane and her Orientation and Mobility instructor.

As your child becomes increasingly active, you’ll want to help them practice different ways of getting around safely and encourage an awareness of the environment. You’ll also want to reinforce the skills and concepts your child is learning from the orientation and mobility (O&M) instructor. You can help your preschooler learn how to know where […]

Role of the TVI with Preschoolers Who Are Blind or Low Vision

Teachers of students with visual impairments often referred to as TVIs, are trained and certified to teach students with blindness or low vision, including those with additional disabilities. The TVI will teach special skills they need to learn to participate in the regular school program. This teacher will also work with the other educational team […]

Cooking up Independence with a Child who is Visually Impaired

A cutting board with three different size beginning knife set.

As preschoolers become more independent, it’s an exciting time to introduce them to food preparation and meal routines. These hands-on activities help build independence, foster creativity, and teach essential skills they will use for a lifetime. Whether you’re guiding your child who is blind or low vision in preparing simple snacks or involving them in […]

Zipping, Snapping, and Fastening—Lots to Learn About Dressing

By the time children are three, they can usually put on pants with elastic waists and pull on a shirt or sweater. But doing zippers, snaps, buttons, and ties might be hard for them. This is true for all young children. Children this age want to do things themselves, but sometimes they can’t yet. That […]

Motor Skills Development for your Child with Blindness or Low Vision

A toddler feet in pink shoes on the ground as they are sitting on a step.

Balance and Trunk Control Balance is a child’s ability to hold his body parts upright. It is part of running, jumping, standing on one leg, bicycling, and ball throwing. As with all motor development, balance develops from head to toe; your child won’t be able to sit until they have head and trunk balance or […]