Perkins Webcasts
Perkins’ series of “on-demand” educational webcasts have been prepared by experts in the field to help you more effectively interact with the visually impaired and deafblind community whether you are a fellow professional, a family member, a friend, or consumer. After you watch the webcast, we encourage you to converse with presenters through a designated email box. We look forward to answering your questions and getting your feedback.
Just Released
Deirdre Leech presents our newest webcast: Early Literacy for Students with Multiple Disabilities or Deafblindness, which focuses on techniques and adaptations that teachers and parents can employ to encourage literacy at an early age.
Select the webcast that you would like to view from the following list.
- Creating Vocational Portfolios for Students with Significant Disabilities
By Mary Zatta
School-to-Work helps educators to create meaningful vocational experiences for their students with significant disabilities and to develop vocational portfolios, essential tools as students transition to adult life. The book School to Work, is currently available in the Perkins store.
- Early Literacy for Students with Multiple Disabilities or Deafblindness
By Deirdre Leech
Students with multiple disabilities, including deafblindness face many learning challenges. They do not learn literacy in typical ways. Often they do not have exposure to books and literacy based materials. Children with hearing loss may not have heard stories read aloud, and may not have used books on tape. The goal for these students is to maximize access using specialized formats.
- Mealtime Skills
By Sue Shannon
Sue Shannon, an occupational therapist at Perkins School for the Blind, describes some of the challenges faced by students who are blind in learning mealtime skills. It focuses on and provides video demonstrations of effective strategies for teaching the skills of pouring, serving, utensil use and cutting. Running time 30 minutes
- Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments
By Tom Miller
The ability to develop friendships and interact with other students is a common concern for parents of children with visual impairments. This Webcast demonstrates how to analyze and adapt teaching strategies to teach social skills to students who are visually impaired or deafblind on an equivalent level with their peers. Tom's presentation on Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments is part of a larger book called “Welcoming Students with Visual Impairments to Your School." and is currently available in the Perkins store.