Monthly Tactile Calendar — click here…
Creating a Calendar with Students with Multiple Disabilities — click here…
Story Boxes: Literacy Adaptations for Students Who Are Deafblind (Paths to Literacy) — click here…
Easy to Create Story Boxes — Ten Ideas for Ten Months — click here…
Fun Activities for Blind and Visually Impaired Children (Pinterest page) — click here…
Themes and Holiday Ideas (Pinterest page) — click here…
Party Planning & Sensory Play for children with visual impairments — click here…
Sensory Areas — Growth and Change — click here…
Sensory Areas — Weather — click here…
Rainy Day Activities — click here…
Easter Basket Fun — click here…
Passover Activities (can be adapted) — click here…
Passover Tips — including children with visual impairment — click here…
Signs” of Passover — click here…
Seasonal Tactile Book Ideas — Five Little Easter Eggs (4th activity on page) — click here…
Story Box for The Very Hungry Caterpillar book (8th activity on page) — click here…
Story Box for How Much is that Doggie in the Window book (scroll down to title) — click here…
Story Box and more for Ferdinand the Bull — click here…
Story Box and more for Giraffes Can’t Dance — click here…
Ruby in Her Own Time book activity — click here…
Ruby in Her Own Time book circle time Braille kit — click here…
Seasonal Tactile Book Ideas — Five Green Shamrocks (2nd activity on page) — click here…
Seasonal Tactile Book Ideas — Kite Flying (3rd activity on page) — click here…
National Poetry Month (April) – Inspirational poetry for youth with sensory impairments and disabilities — click here…
Honoring Earth Day — click here…
Sensory Areas — Families — click here…
Story box and adaptions for Are You My Mother book — click here…
Mother’s Day activity — click here…
I Remember Memorial Day activity — click here…
DIY Father’s Day Journal — click here…
Books from Seedlings for June — click here…
Create Your Own Sensory Mats
Sensory Bags are easy to make and can entertain your child for hours. Make different colors, fill them with different materials, etc.
Use them on a light box/tablet for building consistent visual behaviors, draw shapes/letters/designs, or work on using hands/fingers to explore and move the material in the bag.
Website for Instructions: https://www.craftsbycourtney.com/how-to-crafts/create-a-colorful-glitter-and-gel-sensory-bag/
Tactile Experience Books
Is your family participating in some new routines, activities, and experiences during this extended time together? Did your family have a celebration, vacation, or event in the past few months that you’ve been waiting for the time to document/recollect on/review photos from?
Use objects, materials, photos, and scents from that event to create experience books/boxes to help your child recall the event and relive those moments through an accessible literacy activity.
Further information and a how-to guide can be found at: https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/topic/emergent-literacy/tactile-experience-books
Creating a Tactile Schedule
Use materials related to your child’s daily routines to create a tactile schedule to help them anticipate the activities of their day.
More here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVCCyryqe8
Communication Matrix
Part 1 of a three part series which provides you with an overview of the Communication Matrix and how to implement it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuufdwrD4wg&t=14s
Using Tangible Symbols
Video about using objects and tangible symbols for communication, choice making,and interaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIncpzdZDrs
If you’re searching for an
at-home light tablet,
check out this link on
Amazon.com — CLICK HERE…
Pinterest: Endless Ideas
Check out Pinterest
for a wealth of
easy to make items
to use for
sensory input,
play,
education,
tactile exploration,
etc.
Here’s a search page
to get you started:
CLICK HERE…