Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.61.2.Spring.2016

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 3 accuracy is measured within the app, and teachers are given the opportunity to conduct a Miscue Analysis of the student's reading using an audio recording of the student's voice. Scores for reading speed (in words per minute and correct words per minute), accuracy (in percentage of words read correctly), and comprehension are given for the Reading Challenges. In the Writing Challenge domain, students have opportunities to practice proofreading braille and writing braille. In the Proofreading Challenge, students are given several multiple choice questions in which they must choose the correctly brailled version of a given sentence. In the Speed and Accuracy Challenge, students listen to an audio recording of a word, phrase, or sentence, and they must correctly braille it. All Challenges are tied to the National Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for College and Career Readiness, and reports are generated documenting the student's performance on specific skill sets within the CCSS. 55

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