Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(2)

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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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 4 Amato, Hong, & Rosenblum (2013) recommend that among many instructional tools, the abacus and Nemeth code should be introduced in the primary grades. Survey participants were also in agreement that students with visual impairments should begin learning math computations early (e.g., as early as their same-grade peers, or at the kindergarten level). Hands-on materials. Concrete and functional materials should be used to teach early mathematics. Hands-on materials, or manipulatives, build a conceptual understanding of numerous mathematics skills. Concrete manipulatives not only support the student with visual impairments, but also assist students without visual impairments in understanding mathematical concepts. American Printing House for the Blind has math builder units available that can be used within the general education classroom to aid students with visual impairments understand difficult concepts and build number sense. The math builder units include: matching, sorting, and patterning skills; measurement and estimation; geometry; fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals; and data, collection, graphing, and probability- statistics. 55

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