The Iowa Braille and Sight-Seeing School has a website that provides a list of
books about blindness or characters who are blind. It is available at:
http://www.iowa-braille.k12.ia.us/bibliography_of_blind.html
V.I. Guide offers a list of books about visually impaired characters:
http://www.viguide.com/vsninsvc.htm#BooksWithVICharacters
Blind Children's Fund has a list:
http://www.blindchildrensfund.org/products/characters_blind.asp
Perkins School for the Blind (Helen Keller's school) has a list of fiction and
non-fiction books:
http://www.perkins.org/subsection.php?id=123
http://www.perkins.org/subsection.php?id=131
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has a unit on "sight"--a science lesson--and
provides a list of books for students in grades K-4:
http://www.enc.org/features/calendar/unit/0,1819,273,00.shtm
The Texas School for the Blind provides a list of books:
http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/books.htm
The San Francisco Public Libraries offer a list of books "Yes! We Can!" that
includes various disabilities, including blindness:
http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/sfplonline/kids/booklists/yeswecan.htm
A pdf file on special needs is available at:
http://www.grpl.org/kids/reading/pdf/special_needs.pdf
Here's a lesson plan to use with the book "Through Grandpa's Eyes" which teaches
students about vision loss:
http://www.eduplace.com/tview/tviews/t/throughgrandpaseyes.html
And finally, if you want to learn more about blindness and the use of the Braille
code with children, check out this website. http://www.nyise.org/braille.htm
Good luck!
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Trinity Valley School
Fort Worth, TX 76132
817-321-0100 ext. 410
briscos@trinityvalleyschool.org
"Those who have the highest expectations for the web in terms of student research,
are those who work
with it, and students, the least." -- LM_NET librarian
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of JCharlton
Sent: Thu 1/13/2005 6:40 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] Target: Picturebooks - Blindness
I am looking for picture books with blind characters or about blindness that
I can read aloud with my primary students.
Please e-mail me suggestions and I will post a hit.
Thanks!
Janelle Charlton
ITS\Media Specialist
Osseo Elementary, Osseo, MN
Jcharlton_csc@hotmail.com
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