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Teaching Age-Appropriate Purposeful Skills Part 3 Appendices
by Rona Pogrund Debra Sewell Heidi Anderson Lisa Calaci [et al.]An Orientation & Mobility Curriculum for Students With Visual Impairments 3rd Edition
Teaching Age-Appropriate Purposeful Skills: Street Crossings for Travelers Who Are Visually Impaired
by Linda Myers Wendy SchiffersIt helps travelers lower the inherent risk in crossing streets. Travelers who learn and apply this information will be safer and better able to travel independently in familiar and unfamiliar areas with less need for mobility instruction in the future.
Guidelines: Practical Tips for Working and Socializing with Deaf-Blind People
by Theresa B. SmithHow does deaf-blindness affect communication? How does one guide a person who is deaf and blind? How does all of this affect the role of the interpreter etc.?
Dimensions of Ethical Decision-Making: A Guided Exploration for Interpreters
by Kellie Mills Stewart Anna Witter-MerithewProvides a guided exploration of the dimensions that impact ethical decision-making and engages interpreters in a variety of discussions and activities designed to foster greater degrees of ethical fitness. Fosters a collegial investigation of ethics and ethical decision-making as the cornerstone of effective autonomous practice.
New Independence! Environmental Adaptations in Community Facilities for Adults with Vision Impairments
by Maureen A. DuffyContents include: environmental changes and vision; evaluating the environment; modifying the environment; specific suggestions by area; useful resources, and a checklist for conducting environment evaluations. A book that can make a big difference!
Inclusive Outdoor Recreation for Persons with Disabilities: Protocols and Activities
by Donald R. Snyder Anne Rothschadl Marcy MarchelloInstructors can use this text to teach program design principles. Practitioners can use the information to develop programs, services, protocols, and activities to better serve persons with disabilities in their use of the great outdoors.
Barrier-Free Theatre
by Sally BaileyWays to use drama as a tool to teach traditional classroom subjects, such as science, social studies, and language arts, are highlighted, as well as using it for instruction in social interaction and other vital life skills.
Recreational Therapy and The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
by Heather R. PorterThis book includes all of the codes in the 2016 version of the ICF. There is an overview of each of the ICF's four sections, Body Functions, Body Structure, Activities and Participation, and Environmental Factors, plus a description of Personal Factors. The purpose and scoring of each section are described with recreational therapy examples. Each chapter in the four sections is covered in more detail with a description of the code set, more detailed scoring examples, an assessment overview, and treatment directions. An evidence review demonstrates the efficacy of treating each set of codes.
Raymond's Room: Ending the Segregation of People with Disabilities
by Dale DileoThe horror of the past collides with the dismal reality of present day thinking in Dale DiLeo's engaging memoir about his coming of age in the disability profession. DiLeo invites us into his life and mind, as well as into the one-room prison that represents the systemic exclusion and isolation perpetuated by the present matrix of services for people with severe disabilities. Raymond's Room provides poignant real-life vignettes that examine how the disabilities services system can unintentionally exacerbate a person's existing life challenges.
The Blind Doctor: The Jacob Bolotin Story
by Rosalind PerlmanThe Blind Doctor: The Jacob Bolotin Story reveals the amazing life of a remarkable man who was born blind to poor parents in Chicago in 1888. Rejecting the conventional wisdom of his time that marginalized the blind, he fought his way into and through the Chicago College of Medicine, graduated with honors at twenty-four, and became the world's first totally blind physician fully licensed to practice medicine. By the time he was thirty, he was one of the top heart and lung specialists in the city.Jacob Bolotin's story is both fascinating and inspirational. He was one of the first to raise the awareness of the world to the plight of the blind. His speeches about his own life and the need for treating people with disabilities as capable and productive citizens were in such demand he often gave four talks a day while working full time as a doctor and teaching at three medical colleges. When Jacob Bolotin died at the age of thirty-six, five thousand people attended his funeral.
Invisible Illnesses and Disabilities: Rebuilding Your Life By Learning To Live with A Non-Terminal Life-Altering Situation
by Sharon SmithLearning to live with invisible illnesses and disabilities
Toothpaste and Railroad Tracks
by Kenneth JerniganThis is the eighth book in the Kernel Books Series--a series of books in which people who are blind tell about life situations and how they coped with them. "What do toothpaste and railroad tracks have in common? Just about the same that axes and law books do--nothing and everything. They are the building blocks of the routine of daily existence. In a very real sense they are the essence of humanity itself. When I was younger (maybe 40 years ago), there was a popular song called "Little Things Mean a Lot." It dealt with what the title implies, but its message was much more than that. It was that each little incident (relatively unimportant in and of itself) combines with all of the other trivial events that are constantly happening to us to form the pattern of our lives. It is not the major events but the recurring details that make us what we are--that determine whether we will succeed or fail, be happy and productive or sad and miserable. Other books in this series are available from Bookshare."
Tapping the Charcoal
by Kenneth JerniganVarious individuals tell their story of overcoming blindness and becoming productive employed members of society. Their experiences are an encouragement to all of us who must overcome challenges.
Old Dogs and New Tricks
by Kenneth JerniganThe tenth book in the Kernel Book Series contains these vignettes: Editor's Introduction Old Dogs and New Tricks The Sliding Board Tending to My Knitting Roller Coasters Serving Communion and Loving Elizabeth. Other books in this series are available from Bookshare.
Beginnings and Blueprints
by Kenneth JerniganThis is a motivational book showing that blind individuals can live productive lives doing the things that sighted people do and even succeed at it!
Modular Instruction for Independent Travel for Students Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired: Preschool Through High School
by Doris M. Willoughby Sharon L. MontheiModular Instruction For Independent Travel For Students Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired: Preschool Through High School is a flexible, practical guide for teaching cane travel to students of preschool age through high school.
Wall-To-Wall Thanksgiving
by Kenneth JerniganThis is the thirteenth book in the Kernel Series. Its chapters are: Don't Throw the Nickel Boy Was I Bamboozled Lessons from the Charcoal Pit Concerning Books, Lawn Mowers, and Bus Rides Children, Fruitcake, and Rectangles The Wall-to-Wall Thanksgiving Meeting the Challenge Daddy Read Me Walking the Balance Beam Big Enough to Ride the Bike and, of course, Dr. Jernigan's introduction, which ties together the featured vignettes. Other books in this series are available from Bookshare.
Gray Pancakes and Gold Horses
by Kenneth JerniganHow do blind children learn the details of the hundreds of small daily acts that sighted children pick up without ever even knowing they have done it? A blind boy sits in a farm house on a summer night and wonders which way to shake his head to mean yes and no. He guesses and loses, and his mother's feelings are hurt. I know, for I was that boy.
Kenneth Jernigan: The Master, The Mission, The Movement
by Kenneth JerniganCompiled writings of Dr. Kenneth Jernigan with editorial introduction and notes
I Can Feel Blue On Monday
by Marc MaurerThe title vignette involves a teacher who is determined that a young boy (who is blind) should be able to feel the color of the piece of paper which she gives him. When he assures her that this is not possible, the teacher badgers him until he answers: "I can feel blue on Monday." He is sent to the principal's office for punishment. The principal is a wise man, and the "punishment" is quite fun. "The present volume, I Can Feel Blue on Monday, is number nineteen in the [Kernel Book] series. Here you will meet old friends and new-the real blind men and women whose stories tell what blindness is and, perhaps equally important, what it is not. Although our problems often seem complex, they frequently result from simple matters of misunderstanding and lack of information. ... How does a blind tourist absorb the splendor of the palace of the Imperial Chinese Emperor? What about the woman with failing eyesight who can no longer see the beautiful wings of a butterfly-can she no longer hope to experience those magical moments of beauty which once moved her to tears? And, finally, if (as Thomas Edison once said) 80 percent of all we learn comes through the eye, can our hope for normal lives be anything more than a futile dream?
Summit
by Marc MaurerIn this book you will meet "a blind college student worrying about meeting the challenges of his summer job as a camp counselor, a blind grandmother who wants to share storybooks with her baby granddaughter, a teen-ager fearing the loss of physical freedom she thought would necessarily accompany the loss of eyesight, and a second-grader hurt by his school teacher's obvious disdain for her blind students." Other books in this series are available from Bookshare.
The Car, The Sled, and The Butch Wax
by Marc MaurerIn this book, successful people (who happen to be blind) tell stories which illustrate coping strategies while amusing the reader. Young adults will find courage in these true sharings. Can a person who is blind really do almost anything by using alternate techniques? What are those techniques? These eight people share a few of them. When a student teacher is faced with schoolchildren who have a sledding day planned, will a white cane be enough? Can a man without sight possibly rebuild a car's engine? When a young girl tests butch wax on her long tresses, does her hair ever return to its normal state? Whose fault is it when a person who is blind opens a taxicab door onto the side of a shiny, new SUV? These experiences delight, challenge and inform. This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.
Your Life is Not A Label
by Jerry NewportThis book describes Jerry's life and how he dealt with the challenges of Asperger syndrome. It also lets you, the reader know of things you should and shouldn't do, as well as Jerry's mistakes.
Taking Care of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty, and Personal Curriculum for Young People with Autism
by Mary WrobelWinner of an iParenting Media Award! Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism or other special needs. Through simple stories similar to Carol Gray's Social Stories, author Mary Wrobel teaches caregivers exactly what to say and not say, and shows how you can create helpful stories of your own. Mary addresses hygiene, modesty, body growth and development, menstruation, touching, personal safety, and more. Young students can benefit from self-care skills such as using the toilet, brushing teeth, and washing hands. Parents and teachers should begin teaching these necessary skills as early as possible, even from ages 3-5. The ultimate goal is to maximize the child's potential for independence and lifelong social success. Helpful sections include: Hygiene Health Modesty Growth and Development Menstruation Touching and Personal Safety Masturbation Using A Urinal
Inner Vision: The Story of the World's Greatest Blind Athlete
by Craig Macfarlane Gib TwymanCraig MacFarlane lost his sight at age 2 and went on to become not only the world's greatest blind athlete, but a much-sought-after motivational speaker. His message is PRIDE -- Perseverance, Respect, Individuality, Desire and Enthusiasm.