Teaching the visually impaired with Whiteboards

How to teach the visually impaired to read using the Electronic Whiteboard. A school district in St. Augustine Florida, which services the hearing and visually impaired has been using the Whiteboards since the 1970’s. The K-12 school has about 800 students and is state funded.

They are using the boards in every subject, but what is so amazing, it that they are using them to teach the blind students! The students have the text that they are learning to read projected onto the screen and the teacher stands by and signs the information. So, they eliminate the need to look from the teacher to the text in a back and forth manner.

For those students that are not 100% blind, they are able to project Web addresses onto the screen in super bright and super large fonts so the students can manually touch the link rather then struggle with the pointer!

For the students that are hearing impaired, they are able to crank up the volume from their computers to hear the lesson.

The school is currently trying to buy 100 Whiteboards (at time of publication in ’05 they have 78 Whiteboards).

Read full article at Syracuse University