University Bookshelf

APH Press offers a selection of books for professors to utilize in their courses. Review this list of books to find relevant material for your university program.

• Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, 4th ed. features contributions from over 50 experts covering essential O&M topics. Volume I provides a comprehensive overview of the field of orientation and mobility. Volume II addresses sensory use, O&M instruction for different age and ability groups, and technology applications.
• Babies with CVI: Nurturing Visual Abilities and Development in Early Childhood: Babies with CVI presents specific approaches, strategies, and activity suggestions that families and visual impairment professionals can use to meet the unique learning needs of a child with CVI.
• Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention, 2nd Edition: This book provides educators, therapists, physicians, and parents of children with CVI with an understanding of the condition and a complete framework for assessment and intervention.
• Cortical Visual Impairment: Advanced Principles: This highly anticipated companion book to Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention makes new strides in building knowledge about CVI. The book, a collaboration among experts in several disciplines, dives deeper into topics that are extensions of the original concepts.
• Vision and the Brain: Understanding Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children: Vision and the Brain is a unique and comprehensive sourcebook of current knowledge about CVI and best practices for working with children with CVI. Also available in EPUB format.
• Guidelines and Games for Teaching Efficient Braille Reading, 2nd edition: This second edition of Guidelines and Games for Teaching Efficient Braille Reading offers unique ideas for adapting a general reading program to the needs of braille readers. This book can also be purchased with Federal Quota funds.
• Beginning with Braille: Firsthand Experiences with a Balanced Approach to Literacy, 2ndEdition: Beginning with Braille has been the go-to resource for educators teaching braille to beginning students in the United States and abroad for more than 15 years. Also available in EPUB format.
• I-M-ABLE: Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education: I-M-ABLE is an innovative, individualized, student-centered method for teaching braille and making it exciting for children who have difficulties learning braille.
• Burns Braille Guide: A Quick Reference to Unified English Braille: A perennial favorite resource for teachers and transcribers, The Burns Braille Transcription Dictionary has been revamped as the Burns Braille Guide to usher in the new era of Unified English Braille (UEB). Also available in EPUB format.
• Instructional Strategies for Braille Literacy: This book explains how students develop literacy and braille skills and provides specific strategies and methodologies for teaching braille. Also available in EPUB format.
• Reach Out and Teach: Helping Your Child Who is Visually Impaired Learn and Grow: This book focuses on learning at developmental stages, expanded strategies to promote children’s skills, and preparation for early intervention, preschool, kindergarten, and beyond. Also available in EPUB format.
• Essential Elements in Early Intervention: Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities, Second Edition: This book translates research and best practices into practical strategies that early interventionists can use with children who are visually impaired and have multiple disabilities and their families. Also available in EPUB format.
• Early Focus: Working with Young Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired and Their Families: This book supplies practical strategies for providing services to children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities, in all areas of early development. Also available in EPUBformat.
• Functional Vision: A Practitioner’s Guide to Evaluation and Intervention: This book presents a systematic, comprehensive, integrated approach to assessing functional vision and delivering appropriate services determined by evaluation results. Also available in EPUB format.
• Physical Education and Sports for People with Visual Impairments and Deafblindness: Foundations of Instruction: This book provides practical and essential information on modifying physical skills instruction, techniques for adapting sports and other physical activities, and more. Also available in EPUB format.
• Making Life More Livable: Simple Adaptations for Living at Home after Vision Loss: Making Life More Livable is an important resource for older adults who are losing their vision and the family members who support them.
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Visual Impairment: Meeting Students’ Learning Needs: This book focuses on the complex and varied effects of learning and behavior that result when a child with an autism spectrum disorder is also visually impaired. Also available in EPUB format.
• Access Technology for Blind and Low Vision Accessibility: This book emphasizes opportunities for independence, leadership, and timely access to information for people who are blind or visually impaired. This follow up to the 2008 edition gives an overview of currently available technologies and tools and presents a new process for technology evaluation that ensures every student is supported to build the toolbox they need to break down barriers to access.
• Learning to Listen / Listening to Learn: This book addresses the systematic development of skills in listening for and interpreting auditory information as they relate to literacy, independent travel, and sensory and cognitive development. Also available in EPUB format.
• Reading Connections: Strategies for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments: This book is an in-depth and user-friendly guide for understanding reading instruction for teachers and professionals seeking to improve the reading skills of their students who are visually impaired. Also available in EPUB format.
• ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments: ECC Essentials is the first comprehensive book for teachers of students with visual impairments to focus on the nine areas of the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) that encompass the unique skills children and adolescents with visual impairments need to learn in order to access the core educational curriculum and become independent individuals, by providing the rationale, suggestions, and strategies necessary to implement instruction.
• Keys to Educational Success: Teaching Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities: This book helps educators unlock the learning potential of their students by providing key program strategies that can be directly applied to classroom learning routines. Also available in EPUB format.

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