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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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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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To Love This Life: Quotations by Helen Keller(Print)
$21.95
This is a print edition of a curated collection of quotations by Helen Keller, published by the American Printing House for the Blind — an organization that primarily serves the low vision and blindness community. The book itself is general-interest reading material rather than a functional AT device, but APH's publication of it in print (alongside likely accessible formats) reflects their mission to make meaningful reading material available across formats. It's appropriate for anyone interested in Helen Keller's writings and philosophy, whether or not they have a visual impairment. At $21.95 it's an affordable and straightforward purchase — just note that this specific listing is the print edition, so readers who need large print, braille, or digital formats should confirm available alternatives before ordering, and the made-to-order fulfillment means delivery takes 10–14 business days.
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Tactile Graphics Kit: Case
$28.90
This is a replacement storage case for the Tactile Graphics Kit (item 1-08851-00), made for APH's tactile learning materials. It measures about 13.5 × 12.5 × 3.45 inches and weighs just under a pound. Only the case is sold here, so you'll need the original kit it's meant to hold.
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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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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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Shifting Shapes Game
$8.95
The Shifting Shapes Game is a hands-on board game where a child slides 6 pieces around the board to line up two different tactile shapes. It's made for young learners who explore by touch.
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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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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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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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Paint by Number Safari - Tropical Rainforest
$45.00
Paint by Number Safari - Tropical Rainforest is a set of drawings of real rainforest subjects, printed and embossed on heavy paper. Wide raised lines mark the outline of each animal, and thin raised lines show where colors change on its body. You trace the lines with your fingers, then color the shapes with a crayon, colored pencil, or paintbrush. It's meant for beginning and intermediate artists who want to learn about art, nature, and real-world colors by touch. It's the first set in the Paint by Number Safari series, and the labeling is in Unified English Braille (UEB).
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Mathematical Abacus - 13 Rows
$13.95
This is a rack-style abacus with 13 rows, used as a hands-on way to learn arithmetic. Moving the beads by hand gives a physical, countable model of numbers, which can help when learning to add and subtract, including for someone who works better by touch than by sight. It's a simple standalone tool with no power or software, but it doesn't teach itself, so a parent, teacher, or vision specialist will need to show how to read and move the beads.
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School Ruler with Sign Language A to Z- Blue
$2.50
This is a 12-inch wooden school ruler with black numerals and the ASL manual alphabet printed along it, so the fingerspelled A to Z is always in view. It works as a measuring tool and an everyday sign language reference for kids learning to fingerspell at home or in class. It comes in five colors: red, yellow, blue, green, and white. It's a simple alphabet reference, so it won't teach signs beyond fingerspelling.
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On the Way to Literacy: The Blue Balloon
$160.00
The Blue Balloon is an early-literacy story set in UEB (Unified English Braille). It follows a boy and his dog Kipper, who find a special blue balloon in the garden. It's meant for young children who are starting to explore braille.
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DNA Twist
$70.40
The DNA Twist is a hands-on model of the DNA molecule for students who have low vision. It has two foam side pieces that stand in for the sugar-phosphate backbone, joined by ten rungs for the paired bases. The rungs use contrasting colors and textures, so a student can see or feel which bases pair up. It ships flat and twists into the double-helix shape, then holds that shape, and a stand keeps it upright. It's a good fit for a science class studying DNA structure, used alongside the lesson rather than in place of it.
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U.S. Tactile Map Classroom Pack
$26.00
This classroom pack gives you 15 paper maps of the United States, each printed with raised lines you can feel by touch. The labels appear in both regular print and Unified English Braille (UEB), so a student who reads braille and a sighted teacher or classmate can work from the same map. It suits a geography lesson where a student who is blind or has low vision needs to explore the country's shapes and layout by touch. Because it comes as a set of paper copies, a teacher can hand one to each student or keep spares on hand.
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Early Braille Trade Books: Rigby PM Platinum Edition Kit 2, UEB Contracted
$121.33
This is a kit of braille trade books from the Rigby PM Platinum Edition series, written in Unified English Braille (UEB) with contractions, meaning braille's shortened letter combinations. It gives young students who read braille a set of early-reader books to practice with. Before ordering, confirm the number of titles and the reading level with the seller. The product name says contracted braille, but the web address says uncontracted, so check which version you are getting. Because the books assume the child already reads contracted braille, they work best for students who have started learning those contractions.
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