Sensory Connection

Produced by the RI Dual Sensory Impairment Project, Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities

November / December 2021

PowerPoint Disclaimer

All PowerPoints shared on the Sherlock Center's Adapted Literature website are free and can be downloaded and modified to meet a child’s specific visual and learning needs. CVI (Cortical Visual Impairment) and VI-Friendlier PowerPoints can only be accessed using a full version of PowerPoint and may not work on an app, or when accessed on an iPad or tablet. We are exploring additional formats to allow for iPad access in the future.

Adapted Literature Resources with a Seasonal Focus

Arthur's Christmas

By March Brown

CVI PowerPoint for Arthur's Christmas

Literacy Guide for Clifford's First Christmas. Opens as a PDF.

There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow

By Lucille Colandro

CVI PowerPoint for There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow..

Clifford's First Christmas

By Norman Bidwell

CVI PowerPoint for Clifford's First Christmas.

Literacy Guide for Clifford's First Christmas. Opens as a PDF.

CVI-Friendlier SONGS!

Many younger students respond to music to learn vocabulary and use movement to connect to what they hear. There are vision friendly PowerPoints that connect images to the song’s content. Sometimes there is just a voice singing and for some songs there is also a ukulele!

Visit the Sherlock Center's Adapted Literature website to find available songs. To find all song titles, type "song' into the search field.

images from the PowerPoint showing green frogs on a black background

Five Speckled Frogs

By Nikki Smith

Download a CVI PowerPoint of Five Speckled Frogs Song.

images from the PowerPoint showing a spider, a cloud and a sun on a black background

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

Author Unknown

Download a CVI PowerPoint of The Itsy-Bitsy Spider Song.

Images from the PowerPoint showing a bus and a steering wheel on a black background

The Wheels on The Bus

By Verna HIlls

Download CVI PowerPoint of Wheels on the Bus Song.

Images from the PowerPoint showing a barn and a pig on a black background

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

By Thomas d'Urfey

Download CVI PowerPoint of Old MacDonald Had a Farm Song

Concept Bins

Children with complex learning needs benefit from lots of hands-on exploration of real objects—both familiar objects and new objects. Exploration can help develop basic math concepts about size, shape, color leading to an understanding of classification. They can compare groups of objects and find the one that is "big" or "little" or "same" using communication symbols to convey what they learn. Below are some examples adapted from "56 Tactile Math Ideas: Ideas and Suggestions for Development of Basic Concepts and Early Math Skills on the Paths to Literacy website.

R is for Round Concept Bin

Associated Communication Symbols

Images of different communication symbols for Different, Same, Want, Round, Big, and Small

RI Dual Sensory Impairment Project

The contents of this publication were developed under a grant from the US Department of Education, #H326T180017. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government, Project Officer, Susan Weigert.

The Sensory Connection newsletter is one of many ways the Rhode Island Dual Sensory Impairment (DSI) Program can assist students with combined vision and hearing loss. For additional information on the project, to refer a new child, to contact project personnel, view past newsletters or additional resources, visit https://w3.ric.edu/sherlockcenter/dualsensory.html.

Citation: Rhode Island Dual Sensory Impairment Project. (2021, December). The Sensory Connection. Rhode Island: Sherlock Center on

Disabilities.

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