This one-page tip sheet identifies key components of best practices, including functional age-appropriate curricula, inclusion, behavior issues, transition planning, and parent involvement.
Source: Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project
Expanded Core Curriculum Resources
The Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) provides a framework for instruction in a specialized set of vision-related skills for students who are blind or visually impaired. While students who are blind or visually impaired are expected to follow the same core curriculum as their sighted peers, there are certain areas in which they need specific instruction because of their vision loss. These areas are referred to as the Expanded Core Curriculum: Compensatory Skills, Orientation and Mobility, Social Interaction, Independent Living, Recreation and Leisure, Sensory Efficiency, Assistive Technology, Career Education, and Self-Determination.
Resources in this area deal specifically with ECC topics and concepts, or with Core Curriculum concerns specific to students who are blind or visually impaired. Additional resources are available in the specific topic areas.
Tips for Home or School: Best Educational Practices for Students with Severe & Multiple Disabilities
This information sheet introduces touch cues, including their purpose, examples of their use, considerations, advantages, and disadvantages; available in English and Spanish.
Source: Project SALUTEPerkins School for the Blind has teamed up with Harvard Extension School to offer a free online course for hiring managers and recruiters who are interested in diversifying their workforce. The course, which takes 2-3 hours to complete, is designed to teach participants to:
- Identify potential barriers to employment.
- Comfortably recruit, interview, and onboard candidates of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
- Improve workplace accessibility and culture to support candidates with different abilities.
Session 1: Building a Diverse Recruiting Pipeline
This session covers the barriers to employment job seekers with disabilities face throughout the job search process, focusing on the recruitment stage. Mini documentary-style videos will showcase individuals with disabilities leading fulfilling careers and highlight the breadth of jobs that people with disabilities can perform.
Session 2: Acing the Interview
This session covers the pivotal moment of the interview and disclosure from the perspectives of the interviewer and the interviewee in order to better prepare the interviewer and address the potential for biased judgments.
Session 3: Adapting the Workplace
This session will provide information about creating an accessible and inclusive work environment for individuals with disabilities from the physical office layout to adaptive technology.
Session 4: Preparing for Day One
This session will prepare the manager for what to expect on the first day for a new employee with a disability and for the ongoing role of the manager in supervising an employee with a disability. Participants will learn how to create a workplace culture that supports diversity.
For more information, visit:
A collection of video demonstrations of daily living skills, featuring students at the Washington school. Many of these clips are also available as PowerPoint presentations and plain text.
Source: Washington State School for the BlindDirector of Outreach Cyral Miller offers an overview of the Expanded Core Curriculum; available in English and Spanish.
Source: Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI)Pages
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