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I-M-ABLE: Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education(EPUB)
$34.95
I-M-ABLE is a teaching method for braille literacy that is built around each student's own interests and needs. It is meant for children who find learning braille hard, and it aims to make braille lessons more engaging. This version is a digital EPUB book, so you will need an EPUB reader app or program to open it, and it is written as a guide for the adults who teach rather than as a workbook for the child.
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Sensa LED Light Panel Colourful Bundle
Est. $150–$350
The Sensa LED Light Panel Colourful Bundle gives a child a glowing light surface to explore colour, shape, and light. It comes with acetate sheets, acrylic pebbles, and glitter letters and numbers to place on or over the panel. It suits sensory play and early colour and letter exploration for young children, and the included pieces mean it's ready to use as a complete set.
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Paint by Number Safari - Under the Sea
$45.65
This paint-by-number art set has an under-the-sea theme and is made by the American Printing House for the Blind. It introduces beginning and intermediate young artists to basic art ideas, nature, and the colors of the sea.
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Building on Patterns: Primary Braille Literacy Program: Second Grade: Unit 4 Teacher's Edition, Print
$33.00
This is the print teacher's edition for Unit 4 of the second grade level of the Building on Patterns braille literacy program. It is written for the teacher who guides a young student through the unit's lessons, such as a teacher of students with visual impairments or a classroom teacher working with one. The manual is sold on its own, so you'll also need the Second Grade Unit 4 Student Kit in UEB (Unified English Braille) for the student to use.
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Braille Learning Fidget Keychain (White)
$9.95
This keychain fidget has a six-dot Braille cell that you press and move with your fingers, so you can form letters and symbols by touch and learn how a cell is built. It's made from durable 3D-printed material and has an attached keychain, so it clips onto a backpack, purse, keys, or classroom kit for practice anywhere. It works for blind, low vision, and sighted learners, including kids, adults new to Braille, and classrooms, and it doubles as a plain fidget toy. It's a hands-on way to get familiar with the cell, not a full Braille curriculum.
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Scanmarker Reader Scanning Pen
$199.00
The Scanmarker Reader is a pocket-sized pen that you slide along a line of printed text, and it reads that line aloud through an app on a computer or smartphone. It works with 6 to 24 point print and more than 70 languages, and on screen you can change the voice, reading speed, font size, colors and spacing to make the text easier to follow. It can read as you scan or after the scan is done, and it comes with a guide that helps the pen stay on one line. It connects by Bluetooth, so the computer or phone needs Bluetooth 4.1 and an internet connection. It scans one line at a time, so it suits short passages better than long documents.
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OrCam Read
$1,990.00
The OrCam Read is a small handheld reader, about the size of a marker, that speaks printed or on-screen text aloud when you point it at the page and press the button. You can capture a full page at once, or use one of two laser guides to pick where reading starts. Voice commands let you ask for just the headlines, a certain article, or dates, phone numbers and amounts, instead of listening to everything. It works on books, bills, food labels and phone or computer screens, and it can pick up distant signs. It also has a built-in light for dim rooms, and it runs offline, so no internet is needed. It suits someone who finds print tiring or hard to read because of low vision, dyslexia or reading fatigue.
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Building on Patterns: Primary Braille Literacy Program: First Grade Posttest Teacher's Manual, Print
$15.90
This is the print teacher's manual for the first grade posttest in the Building on Patterns primary braille literacy program, written for the adult who gives and scores the test. It is an optional add-on to the first grade, UEB (Unified English Braille) level of the program, so it only makes sense for classrooms already using that curriculum.
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Building on Patterns: Primary Braille Literacy Program: First Grade: Unit 3 Teacher's Edition, Print
$98.00
This is the print Teacher's Edition for Unit 3 of the first grade level of Building on Patterns, a primary braille literacy program. It's written for the teacher who guides lessons, not for the student to read. It is sold separately from the First Grade Unit 3 Student Kit (UEB), so you'll need that kit for the student's materials.
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Braille-Large Print Yardstick
$29.90
This yardstick lets a student measure by touch or by sight. One edge has raised-line marks every 1/4 inch, with a braille number at each inch. The opposite edge has black large print marks, also in 1/4 inch steps. It's made of durable white plastic and has a hole for hanging, so it can be stored on a wall or hook. The tactile and large print markings sit on the same ruler, so a braille reader and a low vision reader can share it in a math or science class. It measures in inches only.
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Tactile Algebra Tiles
$159.00
Tactile Algebra Tiles are colorful, magnetic tiles that students move around on a steel board to work through math problems by touch. They're made for students who are blind or have low vision and learn algebra best with hands-on materials.
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Wall-Mounted Activity Center
$329.95
This wall-mounted panel packs several hands-on activities into one board: a vibrating plate, a wooden roller that triggers a music box and lights, a pull-ball that runs a fan, a large plate that turns on a bright light, and a bead chain curtain with an unbreakable plastic mirror. Each part gives a clear response when touched, so it works well for a child learning cause and effect, practicing grasp, or getting sensory input. It comes with mounting hardware and runs on 2 C batteries, which sit behind the mirror. You'll need to fasten it to a wall, and the music and colors can vary from what's pictured.
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Feel 'n Peel Sheets: Carousel of Textures II
$169.00
This kit gives you a set of sheets in different textures and colors that you can cut and stick onto other surfaces to make touch-friendly materials. People use sheets like these to build or adapt storybooks, maps, games, and art projects so a child can explore them by feel as well as by sight. It's an add-on to APH's first Carousel of Textures kit, so the two work well together if you want a wider range of textures. These are raw materials, not a finished lesson, so someone has to plan and make the tactile pieces.
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Math Symbol Reference Booklets - Large Print Version
$19.00
These large print booklets are a reference kit for students and teachers working with Nemeth and UEB math, the two braille math codes. They give someone who reads large print a way to look up math symbols on the page.
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Adapted Science Materials Kit
$259.00
This kit gives students with visual impairments the hands-on tools to take part in science lessons and experiments alongside sighted classmates. It includes modified beakers, graduated cylinders with tactile braille scale floats, a syringe with a stop, a balance, and mass sets, and it was designed for K-12 students. Many items came from educators at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. Everything fits in the APH Innovations Tote Bag. Plan on a teacher or teacher of students with visual impairments choosing which tools fit each lesson.
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Building on Patterns: Primary Braille Literacy Program: Second Grade: Unit 1 Worksheets Pack - UEB
$37.99
This is the student worksheet pack for Unit 1 of the second grade Building on Patterns braille literacy program, written in Unified English Braille (UEB). It is sold as a replacement item for the Unit 1 kit, so you can restock the worksheets without buying the whole kit again. It is meant for young braille readers working through this program with a teacher.
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Building on Patterns: Kindergarten, Print Teacher Kit
$309.00
This is the print teacher kit for the second edition of Building on Patterns, a kindergarten program that teaches beginning braille users reading, writing, and spelling. It's the teacher's half of the program, so each braille learner will also need their own student kit. The teacher kit comes in print or braille, and this is the print version, which suits a teacher or aide who reads print and guides the lessons.
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Quick Pick Counting
$78.67
Quick Pick Counting is a counting game made of fifty cards in a plastic packet. Each card has raised-line symbols, and the game comes in both large print and braille, so young children with low vision or blindness can learn to count by touch or sight.
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Turtle Switch
$159.95
The Turtle Switch is a turtle-shaped toy that responds to a light touch with music, lights, vibration, or all three at once. You choose which of the three outputs are active. The music is custom songs made by the manufacturer, and the music, lights, and vibration play only for as long as the toy is pressed. It's a good fit for a young child who is learning cause and effect, or who needs a gentle, rewarding reason to reach for and touch something. It runs on 2 AA batteries and measures about 9 inches long, so it works as its own play and sensory item.
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Math Drill Cards: Number and Math Sign Cards (Nemeth)
$25.75
These flash cards help a student practice number signs and math signs in Nemeth braille, which is the braille code used for math. Each card shows a sign in braille on one side and in large print on the other, so a braille reader and a sighted helper can work from the same card. The cards measure 3 1/2 x 2 inches, are printed in black on low-glare paper, and have a cut corner so you can tell their orientation by touch. This is one of five separate card sets, so you buy only the skill area you need. Some assembly is needed and a storage box is not included, but the cards are designed to work with the APH Card Chart.
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Feel the Beat
$96.97
Feel the Beat is a curriculum for teaching Music Braille Code. Students learn by reading, playing, and memorizing measures on a soprano recorder, so the braille and the instrument are practiced together. It is written for young braille readers who are starting out in music, and it is a teaching resource for a music teacher or teacher of students with visual impairments to lead, not a set of lessons a child works through alone. You will also need a soprano recorder, which is the instrument the lessons are built around.
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Building on Patterns: Primary Braille Literacy Program: First Grade: Unit 7 Student Kit - UEB
$194.00
This student kit is the Unit 7 set for the first-grade level of Building on Patterns, a primary program that teaches beginning braille readers reading, writing, and spelling. The worksheets follow Unified English Braille (UEB), the current standard braille code. It's meant for a young child learning to read through braille, working through the program with a teacher. Because it's one unit of a larger program, it makes the most sense alongside the rest of the first-grade materials and a teacher who knows the lesson sequence.
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Inclusive Easy Choice Bundle
Est. $150–$450
This bundle pairs two wireless switches with HelpKidzLearn software called EasySwitch and Choose and Tell. Together they give a child a way to start making choices and to practice scanning, where options are highlighted one at a time and a switch press picks one. It is made for young learners who are building early choice-making skills and need a switch, rather than a mouse or touchscreen, to take part. Because the switches are wireless, they can be positioned where a child can reach them most easily. The software runs on a computer, so you'll need one set up and ready.
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Braille Stylus: Wood-Handled, Large
$2.50
This is a hand-held stylus for writing braille by pressing dots into paper, one cell at a time. It has a wood handle and a metal point, and one side of the handle is flattened so it won't roll off a desk. The large size measures about 2 3/8 by 7/8 inches, and a smaller version is also made. It's sold singly and works as one half of a writing set, so you'll also need a slate to guide the dots and paper to write on.
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