Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE-Q 66.4 FALL 2021

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 4 Make sure that you make this information accessible for all families, which means you will need to create different formats to share with families. Encourage families to provide feedback and share what they are doing and using throughout the year. To do. Review the information you collected from families about how best to communicate with them. Use this information to inform the different formats for sharing information. Remember, you can involve your students in the creation of materials. Families will love having a personal connection to their child in this information. Examples of formats can be a newsletter (online and paper copy), a brochure, audio, and even video. Ask your students to create content and information that can be included, such as pictures, audio, braille and print captions, etc. to highlight their capabilities and connections to the classroom. I also encourage you to share the information in print and online, so that families can access websites, audio, and media at the click of a button from home. I recommend separating information to share throughout the year to highlight different themes you are exploring in the classroom, and also to highlight different topics that parents identified they want more information about. Strategy 4: Provide Opportunities for Families to Participate with their Child. Developing and strengthening home and school collaboration with families hinders on providing numerous varied opportunities to engage families in person and virtually. Think about opportunities that allow families to participate in their

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