Catalog Number: 6-77962-00 Categories: Early Childhood, English Language Arts
After a powerful, unexpected sneeze, the main character loses their perfect nose and sets off on a playful quest to find it again. Along the journey, the character’s nose is replaced with all sorts of interesting objects and shapes that are whimsical but unsuitable replacements.
Catalog Number: 6-77963-00 Categories: Early ChildhoodCore CurriculumEnglish Language Arts
Young readers join the search for Spot the puppy in this tactile adaptation of Eric Hill’s classic storybook, Where’s Spot? Featuring braille and tactile illustrations, children help look for Spot while encountering a house full of hidden animals and household objects.
Get in touch with literacy through award-winning tactile books and games produced for APH by the French tactile book publisher, Les Doigts Qui Rêvent (LDQR). Richly textured collage style illustrations with interactive features are visually attractive and have appeal for all young learners as well as adults sharing the books with a child. The illustrations’ design is based on research into the needs of tactual learners. Text is provided in large print and contracted Unified English Braille, provided as clear, silkscreened braille of high quality and durability.
Creacube is an innovative electronic learning tool that transforms early math practice into an engaging, multisensory experience for kindergarten and early elementary students. The handheld interactive cube helps children build confidence and fluency with basic math facts through active play. Each side of the cube features buttons numbered in both print and braille. Through audio prompts, the device presents random math drill problems at preset difficulty levels. Students simply rotate the cube to select and submit their answers, receiving immediate, encouraging feedback that keeps them motivated to keep playing. Creacube also features a variety of interactive games and songs, which you can learn more about in the digital guide available below. The light-up buttons, songs, and games make practice time fun while reinforcing essential math skills.
WARNING: Choking Hazard—Small Parts. Not intended for children ages 5 and under without adult supervision.
The second title in APH Press’s STEM series, Accessible Mathematics Education for Students With Visual Impairments, covers the foundation of numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability, the importance of tactile graphics, and more. Written by leading scholars and professionals in the field, each chapter addresses the breadth of K–12 content, giving teachers an understanding of the main concepts within each mathematical topic.
Note: This ebook contains MathML. The NVDA screen reader may not read the MathML correctly without a plugin. The MathCAT and Access8Math plugins are available in the NVDA add-on store. For more information about adding plugins to NVDA, please consult this resource.
Categories: Career and Technical EducationCommunication Modes and Literacy EducationDaily Living and Social Interaction
Braille Bridge provides meaningful, age-appropriate practice materials designed specifically for older students and adults learning to read braille. Unlike traditional resources which have often been limited to children’s stories, Braille Bridge offers content that respects learners’ maturity and life experience. It is not a curriculum, but rather a flexible collection of practical reading materials that allows individual to practice braille reading with relevant content.
Materials are designed to reinforce essential areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC), including compensatory skills, independent living, and self-determination. Each collection includes a variety of functional and engaging activities such as common household labels, punctuation and braille symbol practice, jokes and riddles, and simple sentences.
Available in both contracted and uncontracted braille, and offered in digital and hard-copy formats, Braille Bridge supports learners as they strengthen fluency with content that connects directly to real-world tasks.
Categories: Expanded Core CurriculumOrientation and MobilityRecreation and Leisure
Room with a View: Map-Reading Concepts and Skills is designed to help students who are blind or low vision develop important map-reading skills and spatial concepts through hands-on exploration. By combining three-dimensional models with two-dimensional tactile maps, this kit offers an interactive platform for constructing and understanding a variety of common interior room layouts, such as classrooms, kitchens, offices, bedrooms, and grocery stores. Learners can build physical representations of rooms using the included foam walls, ceiling, and roof components, and then connect these models to corresponding tactile graphics and displays. This progression from concrete 3D representations to abstract 2D maps fosters a deeper understanding of spatial relationships and layout concepts.
Students are given opportunities to practice using and interpreting tactile maps while gaining familiarity with different spatial perspectives, including top, side, and front views. The kit serves as a tool for practicing and demonstrating basic spatial vocabulary and concepts such as “next to,” “between,” “near,” “behind,” and “through.” In addition to guided exploration, learners can independently construct their own tactile room layouts.
Although specifically designed for beginning map readers, Room with a View is also suitable for older students and adults who may benefit from additional experience with tactile displays or who enjoy hands-on construction and spatial reasoning activities.
