Stefanie Cloutier

Stefanie Cloutier is Continuing Education and Enrichment Coordinator at Concord-Carlisle Adult and Community Education.

 

She is a communications professional with a passion for words, focusing primarily on the arts, education and healthcare. Stefanie formerly worked as Education Writer at Perkins School for the Blind.

Example of one way to assist with word recognition: sample boards

Education, Special Needs

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs

This blog features extensive teaching resources for those educators teaching learners with multiple and severe special needs.

Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives

Math and Science

Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives for Kids who are Blind or Visually Impaired

A special education teacher has created a math manipulative that helps students who are blind or visually impaired to more easily learn abstract math concepts.

2 kids with patches

Eye Conditions and Syndromes

Lil’ Victors for Kids who Patch

Lil' Victors carries clothing and other items that advise you to "keep calm and patch on," for when you want people to understand sight issues and why your baby is...

Liftware Spoon

Feeding and Eating

Liftware Adaptive Cutlery

Adaptive cutlery counteracts hand tremors to make eating easier and less stressful. It was developed by a group of scientists and engineers who wanted to improve overall quality of life...

Braille beads kit including packets of beads, wire and instruction booklets

Braille and Literacy

Braille Beads: APH Starter Kit

This braille bead kit from APH provides beads with braille on one side and print letters on the other, for stringing into necklaces, bracelets, or any other jewelry item.

Color Logo of Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired

Schools for the Blind

The Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired

The Children's Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City, Missouri serves any infant to school-age child who is blind or visually impaired by providing “innovative and stimulating programs customized...

Logo of IESDB

Schools for the Blind

Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind

Idaho School for the Blind provides supplemental educational services, early intervention/education, consultation and transition support to families and local school districts throughout Idaho.

Illinois School for the Visually Impaired main building

Schools for the Blind

Illinois School for the Visually Impaired

Illinois School for the Visually Impaired serves as a statewide educational resource offering students with visual impairments quality educational services which will enable them to become personally productive and self-sufficient...

kids on a hike

Schools for the Blind

The Governor Morehead School for the Blind

The Governor Morehead School for the Blind is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and serves all of North Carolina's visually impaired needs.

Iowa Braille School

Schools for the Blind

Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Iowa Educational Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired is located in Vinton, Iowa, and provides educational opportunities, resources and support services for Iowa students who are blind or visually...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles logo

Eye Conditions and Syndromes

Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH) Research at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Dr. Mark Borchert at Children's Hospital Los Angeles directs the world's largest study in optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH).

Missouri School for the Blind logo

Schools for the Blind

Missouri School for the Blind

Missouri School for the Blind (MSB) serves all students in Missouri who are blind, with or without additional disabilities.

Oklahoma School for the Blind

Schools for the Blind

Oklahoma School for the Blind

Oklahoma School for the Blind (OSB), also known as the Parkview School, offers educational services for blind and visually impaired students from preschool through high school.

Overbrook School for the Blind

Schools for the Blind

Overbrook School for the Blind

The Overbrook School is located in Philadelphia, and serves the needs of the blind and visually impaired community in Pennsylvania. They have an international as well as a local focus.

South Carolina logo

Schools for the Blind

South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind

South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind offers separate schools for each disability.