Braille and Literacy, Visual Impairment
Do Blind Kids Still Need to Learn Braille?
From screen readers like JAWS on your computer or VoiceOver on your iPhone to audio books and MP3s, there are multiple ways to listen to words rather than read them,...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
To the Special Needs Family Who Just Can’t Do Christmas This Year
A message for all the parents of special needs kids who just can't do Christmas this year: It's OK. Skip it.
Giveaways
Spread the Love Giveaway!
Enter to win an iPad Air 2, a LightAide and a SMART Brailler! Contest will run until December 15th 2016. Good luck!
Braille and Literacy, iPad Apps and Accessibility
Braille Stickers for iOS Messaging
Check out these Braille Stickers for iOS Messaging available for download through Sensory Sun.
Light Play, Sensory Activities
Best DIY Light Table Tutorials & Ideas
Have you ever considered making your own light table or light box? Here you'll find five of the best DIY light table tutorials, ranked from the more difficult and complex...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Santa’s Little Hackers: Free Adapted Toys for Kids with Disabilities
Santa's Little Hackers is a seasonal toy drive to adapt toys. They make simple modifications to the electronics of toys and give them away.
Toys
Special Needs Rib It Ball from Playability Toys
The Rib It Ball is a large inflatable ball that is light, easy to hold on to (because of those "ribs" along the ball) and comes in bright contrasting primary...
Visual Impairment
Sensory Sun Resources for Kids Who are Visually Impaired
Sensory Sun Educational Technologies is a website that shares information about raising and teaching children with visual impairments.
Support
An Open Letter to the Mom Who Just Wants to Help
Remember that you're my friend, not my therapist.
Holiday Crafts and Ideas, Tactile Arts and Crafts, Visual Impairment
Fall Sensory Art Projects for Visually Impaired Kids
Choose from five wonderfully crafty art projects adapted for blind children that celebrate fall! Make prints and wreaths with apples and leaves, create your own tree, or decorate pumpkins!
Braille and Literacy, iPad Apps and Accessibility
Braille Bee Spelling App Review
Braille Bee is a spelling app for kids who are blind including games for learning how to spell words in uncontracted and UEB contracted braille. Enter to win a free...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Make Your Own Jellyfish Wheelchair Costume
Looking for a fun wheelchair costume idea for Halloween? How about making your own jellyfish wheelchair costume... complete with lights!
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
7 Accessible Halloween Activities from Sensory Sun
Sensory Sun provides activities, curriculum and resources for families with kids who are blind or visually impaired, and their Halloween posts are really a treat!
Support
Wine for Moms of Blind Kids
A glass of wine with dinner helps iron out the stresses of the day for lots of moms, but us special needs moms have more stresses than most!
Orientation and Mobility, Visual Impairment
Guide Dogs of America
Guide Dogs of America is dedicated to its mission to provide guide dogs and instruction in their use, free of charge, to blind and visually impaired men and women