Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBEQ.61.4.Fall.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 8 Auditory-Technological Enhancement Examples: 1. Data Analysis: All Activities • Goal: Computing allows researchers to analyze, visualize and draw conclusions from large data sets. • Curricular Barrier: Graphical representations were visual, and screen reader software did not reliably make menus navigable. Often, graph output could not be understood. • Enhancement: Glance, a web-based tool, is designed so that students can listen to data representations for bar, line, and scatterplot charts. Students can collect and enter their own data or upload a comma delimited file (like Excel). To experience Glance, click here: https://youtu.be/0SkomvXaqb0 2. Robotics: Building Supports • Goal: Robots must be carefully designed and crafted for them to work as intended. • Curricular Barrier: The LEGO kit has over 600 pieces. It was challenging to locate specific ones quickly, which made iterative robot design and building slow and challenging. 45

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