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those who are involved in the child's daily programs, both in terms
of direct teaching of social skills as well as integration of those skills
into all aspects of their education.
The use of PALS benefits the student with visual impairments
in various ways that include building greater reading
comprehension, reading fluency, and social skills with their peers.
The use of PALS can be monitored by the teacher within the
general classroom environment so students with visual impairments
can stay included with their classmates instead of being segregated
from peers during reading interventions. The benefits of PALS have
the possibility to extend well beyond the classroom walls and can
lay the foundation for friendships and the love of reading. The use
of PALS can also be paired with games to help develop phonemic
awareness, braille contraction recognition, and increase motivation
to read. Some suggestions for games are bingo, rhyming matching
games, fishing for braille contractions, pick a stick where various
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