[LM_NET] HIT: Resources/Materials for Visually Impaired Student

[Kate Summerlin <SummerlinK@GUILFORD.K12.CT.US>]

Here are the responses I received for print and electronic materials to support a 
visually impaired second grader who is just learning to use braille.  The request 
was for a book(s) to help the teacher introduce the student's handicap in a way 
that would not stigmatize him.   Thanks for everyone who responded.

The NLS http://www.loc.gov/nls/ provides a list of all state libraries for the 
blind and physically handicapped under the "where libraries are located" hyperlink. 
 It's a great resource for families, too.


This is not a book, but a site you and your students may find of interest:

http://www.afb.org/braillebug/

Highly recommended:
Keep your ear on the ball - by Petrillo, Genevieve
Davey, a new student who is blind, refuses all help from his sighted
classmates, even while playing kickball at recess. The students figure
out a way to help Davey help himself by using his hearing to full
advantage--and keeping his independence.


Other titles:
Jeremy's dreidel - by Gellman, Ellie.
Jeremy signs up for a Hanukkah workshop to make unusual dreidels and
creates a clay dreidel with braille dots for his dad, who is blind.

Mandy Sue Day - by Karim, Roberta.
Mandy Sue's farmer father promises each of the children one day without
chores, and today is Mandy Sue day. She spends it riding and talking to
her horse, Ben, and although Mandy Sue is blind, she knows her best
friend's ears flick back to hear her.

Naomi knows it's springtime - by Kroll, Virginia L.
Naomi, who is blind, knows when winter is over and spring has begun: the
air stops nipping her nose, grass blades slide between her bare toes,
and the lilies and lilacs begin to perfume the yard.

Private and confidential : a story about braille - by Ripley, Marion.
When ten-year-old Laura discovers that her new Australian pen pal,
Malcolm, has vision problems, she learns how to use a neighbor's braille
machine in order to write to him. Includes an alphabet card and a
braille message.

Elizabeth Hart
Library Technical Assistant
California School for the Blind

Here's a free Braille book program at
<http://www.actionfund.org/freebooksmain.htm> You might also want to
check this site   http://blindness.growingstrong.org/ed/ucchildren.htm

At TLA I purchases two E books from a vender written in braille; The
Dot, and Guess How Much I Love You.  There are some basic braille
instructions in the books and a web site on the back, 
www.brailleink.org<http://www.brailleink.org>


Kate Summerlin
Library Media Specialist
Guilford, CT
Libraries.....places of buzzzzzzz...not shhhhhhhh!

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