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Bridges Blog Independent Living Resources Series: Juggling June 2024

Task Time Budgeting

Juggling June Join our Project Coordinator, Chris Nusbaum, and our Director, Carlton Walker, as we dive into the “soft skills” we need in order to avoid a HARD landing! In this second blog for Juggling June, we discuss the task of budgeting. While we often think of budgets in terms of money, this topic involves […]

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Bridges Blog Independent Living Resources Series: Juggling June 2024

Prioritization

Juggling June Join our talented Project Coordinator, Chris Nusbaum, and our Director, Carlton Walker, as we dive into the “soft skills” we need in order to avoid a HARD landing! In this first Juggling June installment, we’ll discuss prioritization and discuss techniques to help you use prioritization to help you tackle the tasks you must […]

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Sample Goal and Data Collection Tool for Word Keyboard Commands

Updated as of September 7, 2024. In one-on-one instruction with the Teacher of Students with Blindness/Visual Impairments, when utilizing a computer with the screen reader JAWS, STUDENT will score a minimum total of 216 (average of 4.8 per task) in three out of four consecutive bi-weekly running records on the following rubric using keyboard commands […]

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Bridges Resource Library Crossing Bridges Together: Secondary Transition In the Field, A Reading Room For Educators

Legal Support for Expanded Core Curriculum Assessment and Instruction

Updated as of September 7, 2024. Scenario: School has said that FAPE (free appropriate public education) includes only the core academic curriculum and does not include instruction in the expanded core curriculum (ECC). Additional scenario issues: Strategy: Know the Law That Governs ALL IEPs Initial and Reevaluations As an initial matter, the Individuals with Disabilities […]

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Bridges Resource Library Crossing Bridges Together: Secondary Transition In the Field, A Reading Room For Educators

Meeting Enlarged Print Music Needs

Updated as of September 7, 2024. Scenario: Student cannot access print music efficiently. In this case, the student is a talented musician who began losing her central vision rapidly at the end of her junior year in high school. Strategies to empower student to enlarge sheet music in real-time Scan and magnify Depending on the […]