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Resources for teaching geoscience (and other science) to visually impaired students

• Soils
• Dr. Elissa Levine, Soil Scientist for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and PI for the Soil Characterization Investigation of The Globe Program.
• View the Powerpoint on Globe's summer camp for visually impaired kids

• Space
• NASA Helps Visually Impaired Students Touch the Sun, Dec. 2004.
• Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCIVIS)
• Beck-Winchatz, B., Hoette, V., and Grice, N., 2003, Making Astronomy and Space Science Accessibleto Blind and Visually Impaired Students, AGU Poster.
• Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy, by Beck-Winchatz
• Touch the Stars, by Noreen Grice
• Lubick, Naomi, June, 2004, Touching the Stars, Geotimes.

• General 
• Perkins School for the Blind has links to many invaluable resources for teaching science to visually impaired students. PLEASE visit this site!
• Many resources are listed here as well...
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired has links to many resources in a variety of disciplines. Click here and scroll to the science section about half way down.
• IST Results (2006, April 27). Technology to Improve Learning For Visually Impaired Children
• Hansen, L.A., 2002, Earth Science Teaching Materials and Techniques for the Visually Impaired, GSA Abstract - Annual Meeting, Denver.
• Mastropieri, M.A., and Scruggs, T.E., 1992, Science for Students with Disabilities, Review of Educational Research, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 377-411.
• Masteropieri, M.A., Scruggs, T.E., and Magnusen, M., 1999, Activites-Oriented Science Instruction for Students with Disabilities, Learning Disability QUarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-249.
• Barrier Free Education - higlights the lives of visually impaired (other disabilities as well) people working in math, engineering, and science.
• UC Davis professor Gary Vermeij may be visually impaired, but he's been studying sea shells for more than 35 years - listen to the NPR story about his recent research or read a recent (06/11/2008) New York Times article on his story.
• National Center for Blind Youth in Science

• Geology
• Asher, Panoti M., 2001, Teaching an introductory Physical Geology course to a visually impaired student, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 49, n.2, p. 166-169..
• Locke, Sharon M. (Eastern Alliance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), The Status of persons with Disabilities in the Geosciences, 9 pp.
• Travis, Jack W., 1990, Geology and the visually impaired student, Journal of Geological Education, v. 38, p. 41
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Stone Sculpting

• Mapping
• Best practice guidelines for the design, production and presentation of vacuum formed tactile maps. by Ann Gardiner and Chris Perkins
• Blind Audio Tactile Mapping System
• Evaluating Map Graphics for Color-Blind Viewers
• The Thematic Tactile Atlas of Canada (also on the Natural Resources Canada website)

• Tactile graphics
• Texas School for the Blind: Tactile Graphics Resources
• Tactile Vison

• Other graphics
• Portal (UT Austin): Computer graphics for the blind
• Computer graphics for blind people through a haptic virtual environment

• Engineering
• Staff Writers, October 15, 2007, Researchers Develop Adaptive Technologies for Visually Impaired Engineers, Terra Daily.

• Math
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
• Graphical calculus course for vision-impaired students
• Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Abacus Internet Site Packet

• Remote Sensing
• Echo the Bat for the visually-impaired

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