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cognitive, or learning differences and their teachers, accessible instructional materials (AIM) may open doors to teaching and learning that ordinary print-based materials have closed. Accessible instructional materials are specialized formats including braille, audio, large print, and digital text.) Additional Organizations and Initiatives in Michigan ATXchange – Michigan-based website where people can buy, sell or give away assistive…

MCAST strategic plan holds a number organizational objectives: 1)Train to train: Training Service for Staff 2)Increasing Flexibility, Accessibility, and Innovation to MCAST students 3)Create more inclusion to persons with special needs - Improve physical Access 4)Provide the best educational resources for all students Amongst the objectives in the strategic plan MCAST focuses on the importance of giving front-line services to students with special needs this goes in line with “A person with…

to gradually lose his sight, he completely lost his sight by the age of seven. After he lost his sight his mother then sent him to Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, Florida. There he learned to read, write, arrange music in Braille, play the piano, organ, sax, clarinet, and even the trumpet. Ray was interested in different kinds of music, they mainly ranged from country to gospel, to blues. Ray lived his life based off of something his mother said to him, “Always…

Marla Runyan: A Visually Impaired Athlete Marla Runyan is a world-class track and field athlete, who competed for the United States Olympic Team in 2000. She also happens to have Stargardt’s disease, which makes her legally blind. Marla once said, “If I break a national record, maybe they will stop writing about my eyes” (LaFontaine 228). There are 285 million people that are visually impaired in the world (WHO). Of those people, 248 million have low vision and thirty-nine million are blind…

2.2 Describe the factors to consider when promoting effective communication When looking into promoting effective communication, the following needs to be taken into account • Individual needs - everyone is different and everyone learns/expresses themselves in an individual way • environment - each situation requires a different environment. should something sensitive need to be discussed, then you would not want to do this is a busy open area. • Proximity - depending on what the discussion and…

Low vision is an uncorrectable loss of vision that interferes with daily activities. The World Health Organization 's (WHO 2010) criteria for low vision: Low vision is a best-corrected visual acuity lower than 0.5 logMAR (Snellen 6/18) but equal to or more than 1.3 logMAR (3/60) in the better eye, or visual field corresponding to less than 20 degrees in the better eye. Blindness is defined as a best-corrected visual acuity lower than 1.3 logMAR or a visual field no more than10 degrees in the…

records, this was the source of the The Tale of Peter Rabbit which was published through the Tales series in 1902. A total of 23 books authored by Miss Potter was published through this series. In 1921, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published in Braille at her request. Beatriz dreamed of owning her own business in addition to being an author. She was very intuitive and she instinctively knew people would buy things if those items were associated with the stories she was writing. She…

my reader's and writer’s sight.” Losing his reader and writer’s sight, he has lost his ability to look at literature the way he used to. He no longer could easily look at texts and analyze them rather now this would be much more difficult using braille as an alternative. All in all Borges’ identifies and explains that even though he is proud of his blindness it has cut him off from the world he use to…

Molly Burke Introduction Molly Burke is a teen activist who speaks against bullying. She became blind from a disease that is rare and only 1 in 4,000 people get, but no matter what, she still had the courage to keep going and accomplish all her dreams. She never gave up no matter how mean the bully, or how hard the challenge was. Molly has inspired many people to try their best to follow their dreams no matter how many bumps are in the road on the way. Her Childhood On February 8…

In this task I will explain the concepts of equality, diversity and rights in relation of health and social care. Equality This is ensure the important to treat people with equal rights, and opportunities. The law states that every organisation must have an equal opportunities policy that can be seen by all employee. This is to make sure that everyone in the organisation is not treated differently, has the same choices and opportunities. Equality is also a legal frame work to protect against…