Braille and Literacy, iPad Apps and Accessibility
Exploring Braille App Review
Exploring Braille with Madilyn and Ruff is an iPad app that teaches the braille alphabet while also introducing your child to the iPad, VoiceOver and a refreshable braille display.
Sensory Activities
Give the Gift of a Sensory Activity!
Looking for a great present for a blind or visually impaired child? How about giving them the gift of a sensory activity! Learn how to make (and give!) homemade edible...
Math and Science
Simple Science Experiments: Sink or Float?
Will it sink or will it float? This is a simple science experiment that is completely accessible for children who are blind or visually impaired. And it's fun too!
Play
Bug’s Bikes
Bug's Bikes is a charity in Massachusetts that provides adaptive bikes to children whose families need financial assistance.
Giveaways
Father’s Day Giveaway!
Enter to win a copy of Froggy's Day with Dad in print and braille from National Braille Press! Each book also comes with a guide on how to introduce your...
Feeding and Eating, Health & Nutrition
Maintaining a High-Calorie Diet for Special Needs Kids
Many special needs children are placed on high-calorie diets. Here are some tips on how to manage a high-calorie diet with ideas for foods and calorie enhancers.
iPad Apps and Accessibility
TapTapSee App Review
TapTapSee is an amazing app that can identify just about anything in a photo. Use your iPad or iPhone's camera to take a photo and TapTapSee will speak (using VoiceOver)...
Sensory Activities, Toys
Make Your Own Stackable Sound Blocks!
Find out how to make your own stackable sound blocks out of Gerber baby food containers. They are easy to make and fun to play with!
Math and Science
Plants Get Thirsty Too! How watering plants can teach new skills
What can your child who is blind learn through watering plants? Lots! Watering can be an opportunity to count leaves, talk about the plants, squeeze water bottles, fill bottles and...
Holiday Crafts and Ideas
Make Your Own Natural Grass Easter Basket!
How about a natural grass Easter basket? This is a project my son did at school and we just love it!
Giveaways
Custom Embroidered T-Shirt Giveaway!
Enter to win a custom embroidered t-shirt from the Stitch Wench for your child. You pick the design and you pick the message! Giveaway ends May 8th 2014.
Giveaways
HowdaHUG2 Giveaway!
What does the HowdaHUG Seat do that other chairs don't? It comes with pull straps along the side of the seat that you can pull to adjust to squeeze and...
Sensory Activities, Toys
Make Your Own Bead Container
Ivan's Occupational Therapist suggested finding simple activities he could do that would require him to use one hand to stabilize while the other hand is engaged. Making a Bead Container...
Toys
Crayola Color Wonder Mess Free Paints
My son was asking to paint after he had at preschool a few times, and I was dreading the mess--but then I found these paints! He gets the same experience...
Schools for the Blind
The Hadley School for the Blind
The Hadley School for the blind is known for offering distance education to anyone who wants or needs blindness education, including parents of blind children.