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Stay informed with the latest news, events, and updates from A Shared Vision, supporting visually impaired children and their families.
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The Six Holiday Senses Book
This December our teachers got together to make a new holiday tactile book for some of their families. Each page of this tactile book is dedicated to a different sense – vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. The sixth sense is a feeling – the love that you and your family experience during the holidays or any time of year. Learn how to make our holiday tactile book HERE.
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Build a Sit ‘n’ Play Sensory Table
This table makes the fun of sensory bins accessible from your child’s favorite supportive chair. We love sensory bins because they help children with visual impairments develop sensory processing and fine motor skills, boost concept development, and encourage play-based learning. Plus, you can fill a sensory bin with just about anything you find in your home! The end of this article has a list of ideas. Click HERE to build you own!
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An Exclusive Book by A Shared Vision
What are some developmentally appropriate activities a parent or caregiver can do with their child who is blind or visually impaired?
How do Early Intervention Teachers of the Visually Impaired show parents how to engage with their child and provide a variety of multi-sensory experiences for the child to gain access to the visual world? Click HERE to read more. |
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Egg-Venture in Grand Junction
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A Shared Vision families enjoyed an accessible Easter egg hunt in Grand Junction on March 30th. The event was sponsored by the Orchard Mesa & Fruita Lions Clubs, the Center for Independence Low Vision/Blind Program, and A Shared Vision.
Families experienced the hunt with beeping eggs, crafted their own tactile book, and rode in a horse-drawn carriage. |
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Gift Ideas!
A Shared Vision families often ask us for recommendations on what to buy their very young child who’s blind or visually impaired. We’ve got the list of perfect, sensory toys! Click HERE to find your new favorite gift.
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Tickle-Me-Pink Cookies Sensory Recipe
Instead of rolling dough and cutting out heart-shaped cookies, try these strawberry-flavored cookies made with just three ingredients! The secret to this recipe is a strawberry cake mix, which you combine with vegetable oil and two eggs. While the cookies are baking, your kitchen will smell like strawberries. The cookies turn out soft, puffy, and very pink! Click HERE for the recipe.
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All About Me Mystery Party
How do you describe your child to others? During our December 7th Mystery Party via Zoom, we shared ways you can create an “All About Me” book about your child, from a simple one-page snapshot to a book you can publish on your computer. Here are some ideas from the parents who attended. Download our one-page template HERE.
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Silver Award Girl Scout Troop #60035
We’re thankful for Girl Scout Troup #60035! For their Silver Award, they made 10 sensory boards, 10 toy bars and 11 book bags and presented them to A Shared Vision’s families during the troop’s December 4th meeting in Aurora, CO.
A Shared Vision parents were touched by these gifts. “This brought tears to my eyes. What a sweet and thoughtful project!” Useful, too! Very young children with blindness or a visual impairment learn using all their senses. The sensory boards and toy bars encourage them to reach out and interact with their environment. Book bags include the book and objects related to the story so they can understand the words by listening to the story and/or touching the objects. Click HERE to view more pictures! 
Girl Scout Troup #60035 with (front row, left to right) Emerie and Lashawn, Maggie Tutt (teacher), Janet Anderson (teacher), Jozie, Kyle, Sara, and siblings.
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It's a Horse, of Course!
A Shared Vision's families met the miniature horses from McNicholas Miniatures on Saturday, September 17, 2022.
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Vision Screening 2022!
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Podcast with Paula Landry, Co-founder and EI-TVI
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How do you teach a child's first teacher?! While the focus of early intervention is to improve a child's developmental outcomes, a provider's energies and efforts focus on the child’s caregivers. We are teachers and coaches for parents, not teachers and therapists for the children. Our goal is to enable caregivers to be effective first teachers – to be consciously competent about how to support the unique needs of their child.
How can providers become more effective at teaching adults who have different learning styles and preferences? A Shared Vision’s co-founders Paula Landry and Steven Lindauer share answers during a March 3 webinar sponsored by the Western Regional Early Intervention Conference.
Click the button below to view the 2-hour webinar and to download the webinar slides, handouts for providers' ongoing use, captioned text, and participant chat, as well as a synopsis of the webinar and learning objectives.
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Vision Screening via Telehealth
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A Shared Vision's Kimala Rein Teaches Infant Massage
Malachi's Vision Therapist passed along information last week about daily learning opportunities for kids with vision impairments, parents and providers through the organization 'Paths to Literacy.' |
Let's Make Music Together!
A Shared Vision hosted its first music therapy class on March 7. The families who attended banged a big drum, shook egg maracas and strummed guitars. They sang simple rhymes with Amanda Bryant, the music therapist leading the class. They learned how music stimulates all their senses, sometimes calming them down or making them more curious. While we have cancelled future in-person classes for the time being, stay tuned for other music offerings this year. Click HERE for more pictures of the event.
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PUMPKIN PATCH FRIENDS!
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