Expanded Core Curriculum Content Areas Resource Mapping
Content Area
Assistive
Technology
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Technology
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Career Education
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Assessments
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WIAT model3
Assistive Technology
for Students who are
Blind or Visually
Impaired: A Guide to
Assessment2
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Assistive Technology
for Students who are
Blind or Visually
Impaired: A Guide to
Assessment2
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Teaching Curriculum
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Talking Typer1
Learn Keys1
Braille + Mobile Manager1
Refreshable Braille1
Verbal View of Windows1
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Hands On1
Prevocational Skills
Development Materials1
Going Places1
Transition Tote System1
Going Places1
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Resources
Foundations of
Education 2
2008 Access World
Guide to Assistive
Technology Products2
Itinerant Teaching:
Tricks of the Trade for
Teachers of Students
with Visual
Impairments2
Foundations of
Education2
Possible Gaps
Foundations of
Education2
Business Owners who
are Blind or Visually
Impaired2
Career Perspectives2
College Bound2
A Practical Guide to
the ADA and Visual
Impairment2
Health Care
Professionals who are
Blind or Visually
Impaired2
Jobs to be Proud Of
Skills for Success2
Teachers who are Blind
or Visually Impaired2
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Content Area
Assessments
Teaching Curriculum
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Compensatory
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Assessment of Braille
Literacy Skills
(ABLS)5
Brigance1
Key Math1
K-Fast1
Woodcock-Johnson1
Growing Up1
Assessment Kit 3
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Building On Patterns1
Patterns1
Braille writing Dot by Dot1
Calendar System1
Tactile Treasures1
Move, Touch & Do1
Growing Up1
Effective Use of Objects1
PATTER1
Wilson Reading System1
Turbo Phonics1
Word Play House1
StackUps1
Math Builders (1,6) 1
Focus in Math1
Beginning Abacus1
Sense of Science Series1
Address Earth1
Maps Represent Real
Places1
Recognizing Landforms1
Walk/Run for Fitness1
Jump Rope to Fitness1
Expandable Calendar
Boxes1
Tactile Connections1
Fun Braille1
Braille Contraction
Recognition1
Touch and Tell1
Freund Longhand Writing1
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Resources
A Parent’s Guide to
Special Education for
Children with Visual
Impairments2
Foundations of
Education2
Braille Literacy: A
functional Approach 2
Reach Out & Teach2
Collaborative
Assessment: Working
with Students who are
Blind or Visually
Impaired, Including
Those with Multiple
Impairments2
Foundations of Braille
Literacy2
Guidelines & Games
for Teaching Efficient
Braille Reading2
Hand in Hand:
Essentials of
Communication and
O&M for students who
are deafblind2
Instructional strategies
for Braille Literacy2
Looking to Learn:
Promoting Literacy
Skills in Students with
Low Vision2
Making the Most of
Early Communication2
Focused On: Social
Possible Gaps
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Content Area
Assessments
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Teaching Curriculum
Web Chase1
Scattered Crowns1
Braille Fundamental3
Un’s the One3
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Independent Living
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Brigance1
Oregon Project4
INSITE7
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O&M
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3
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TAPS3
Twist, Turn, & Learn1
PATTER1
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Sherlock Talking Label
Identifier1
Making Picture Recipes1
Money Handling &
Budgeting1
Money Talks1
Reclaiming Independece1
Independent Living Series3
INSITE7
Oregon Project 4
3
TAPS
Mini Guide1
K-Sonar Curriculum
Guide1
Chang Kit1
Picture Maker: Wheatley
Board1
PATTER1
Walk/Run for Fitness1
Jump Rope to Fitness1
Miniguide US1
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Resources
Skills2
How to Thrive, Not
Just Survive2
Teaching Social Skills
to Students with Visual
Impairments2
Beginning with Braille:
Firsthand Experiences
with a Balanced
Approach to Literacy 2
Foundations of
Education2
How to Thrive, Not
Just Survive2
Early Focus: Working
with Young Children
who are Blind or
Visually Impaired2
Toward Independence:
The Use of
Instructional Objectives
in Teaching Daily
Living Skills2
Reach Out and Teach2
Foundations of
Education2
Imagining the
Possibilities2
Independent without
Sight or Sound2
Early Focus: Working
with Young Children
who are Blind or
Visually Impaired and
Their Families2
Possible Gaps
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Content Area
Assessments
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Teaching Curriculum
O&M Tactile Graphics1
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Recreation/Leisure
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Guided Art Stories1
Time for Art Projects1
Portable Sound Source1
Walk/Run for Fitness1
Jump Rope to Fitness1
Armadillo Army Software1
Termite Torpedo Software1
Toodle Tiles1
Web Chase1
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An Orientation &
Mobility Primer for
Families and Young
Children2
O&M Techniques: A
Guide for the
Practitioner2
Reach Out and Teach2
English/Spanish Basics
for O&M Instructors2
Collaborative
Assessment2
Foundations of
Orientation and
Mobility2
Hand in Hand
How to Thrive, Not
Just Survive 2
The Art & Science of
Teaching O&M2
Simon Says Is not the
Only Game2
Teaching O&M in the
Schools: An
Instructor’s
Companion2
Foundations of
Education2
Art Beyond Sight: A
Resource Guide2
Creative Recreation for
Blind and Visually
Impaired Adults2
How to Thrive, Not
Just Survive2
Possible Gaps
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Content Area
Self-Determination
Assessments
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EVALS3
PATTER1
Oregon Project4
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Teaching Curriculum
Game Kit1
Wooden Constructo Sets1
Independent Living Series3
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PATTER1
Web Chase1
Empowered 3
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Sensory Efficiency
Auditory
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Tactual
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Resources
Reaching Out: A
Creative Access Guide
for Designing Exhibits
& Cultural Services for
Persons who are Blind
or Visually Impaired2
Foundations of
Education 2
College Bound2
Skills for Success2
Teaching Social Skills
to Students with Visual
Impairments2
A Parent’s Guide to
Special Education for
Children with Visual
Impairements2
Loving You1
EVALS3
Sensory Learning Kit1
INSITE7
Growing Up 8
Oregon Project4
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Listen & Think1
Sensory Learning Kit1
SAM 1
Guided Art Stories1
Portable Sound Source1
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Foundations of
Education 2
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Tactile Treasures1
INSITE7
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Setting the Stage1
Sensory Learning Kit
SAM1
Tactile Treasures1
Twist, Turn, Learn1
Tangle Toy1
Rolling into Place1
StackUps1
Basic Science Tactile
Graphics1
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Foundations of
Education2
Tactile Leaning
Strategies2
Hand in Hand2
Independence without
Sight or Sound2
Tactile Graphics
Tactile Leaning
Strategies
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Possible Gaps
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Content Area
Assessments
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Visual
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3
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FVALMA1
ISAVE1
Sensory Learning Kit1
TOAD1
Vision Tests for
Infants2
INSITE7
Growing Up 8
Oregon Project4
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Teaching Curriculum
Basic Tactile Anatomy1
Atlas
World at your Fingers1
Address Earth1
Maps Represent Real
Places1
Time for Art1
Tactile Connections1
Touch and Tell1
Teaching Touch1
Draftsman Tactile Drawing
Board1
Graphic Art Tape1
O&M Tactile Graphics1
Picture Maker: Wheatley
Board1
Students who are
Deafblind using APH
Products1
Scattered Crowns1
Envision (I & II) 1
Program to Develop
Efficiency in Visual
Functioning1
Sensory Learning Kit1
SAM1
Sense of Science Series1
Let’s See1
Light Box Activity Guide1
INSITE7
Growing Up 8
Oregon Project4
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Possible Gaps
Foundations of
Education 2
What Can Baby See? 2
Autism Spectrum
Disorders and Visual
Impairments2
Cortical Visual
Impairment2
Early Focus: Working
with Young Children
who are Blind or
Visually Impaired and
Their Families2
Essential Elements in
Early Intervention2
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Content Area
Assessments
Teaching Curriculum
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Social Interaction
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INSITE7
Oregon Project 4
Growing Up 8
Sensory Learning Kit1
EVALS3
PATTER1
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PATTER1
Independent Living Series3
Getting to Know You--Social Skills/Ability
Awareness Curriculum 1
Sensory Learning Kit1
INSITE7
Oregon Project4
Growing Up 8
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Resources
Foundations of Low
Vision2
Functional Vision: A
Practitioner’s Guide2
Independence without
Sight of Sound2
Looking to Learn2
Preschool Vision
Stimulation2
InFocus with Low
Vision Kit 6
Ben and Buzzy's Busy
Days6
Foundations of
Education 2
Development of Social
Skills by Blind and
Visually Impaired
Students2
Web Chase1
Possible Gaps
The items cited above are available from the following:
1.
American Printing House for the Blind. www.aph.org
2.
American Foundation for the Blind Press www.afb.org
3.
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Curriculum Department. http://www.tsbvi.edu/curriculum-a-publications
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The Oregon Project for Preschool Children who are Blind or Visually Impaired. South Oregon Education Service District, http://www.soesd.k12.or.us/sectionindex.asp?sectionid=132
5.
Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School. Available through Educational Service Center- Region 4 http://www.region4store.com/Catalog.aspx?catid=347927&itmid=348557
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Education Service Center – Region 4. http://www.region4store.com/Catalog.aspx?catid=347927&itmid=669829
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SKI-HI Institute, Utah State University. http://skihi.org/INSITE.html
8.
Growing Up. Reference to be added by authors
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