Abstract
The Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind (ILAB) project has developed a suite of speech accessible tools for students who are blind or low vision to use in secondary and postsecondary science laboratory classes. The following are illustrations of experiments designed to be used by educators to introduce them to the ILAB tools, and to demonstrate how these tools can be incorporated into standard laboratory experiments. Information about the Lawrence Hall of Science’s SAVI/SELPH curriculum is also discussed.
Highlights
The Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind (ILAB) project has developed a suite of speech accessible tools for students who are blind or low vision to use in secondary and postsecondary science laboratory classes
Day recommends that residential schools for the blind shift from a more purely academic role to an “enabling readiness” mentality, giving students with blind or low vision (BLV) the skills necessary to thrive in a sight-centered world and the ability to learn and develop throughout their lifetimes (5)
The contents of the reaction can be poured down the drain with excess water. These experiments illustrate how ILAB tools can be incorporated into a teacher training module to introduce educators to the tool functionality
Summary
The Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind (ILAB) project has developed a suite of speech accessible tools for students who are blind or low vision to use in secondary and postsecondary science laboratory classes. Residential schools for the blind have provided educational services to students who are blind or low vision (BLV) for well over 100 years (1). In 1975, the passage of public law 94-142 (Education of All Handicapped Children Act, later renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) started the trend for students who are blind to enter the mainstream classroom (2). This trend is leading to the enrollment of a larger proportion of students with multiple disabilities and/ or lower cognitive abilities in the residential schools for the blind (3). It can output these pitches directly or as spoken frequency values
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