Explore the concepts behind meaningful access, participation, and independence.

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Beginning

Learn how to teach the concept of beginning to blind and visually impaired students through sequencing, routines, transitions, and explicit instruction that makes hidden visual cues accessible.

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Categorizing

Learn how to teach categorizing to blind and visually impaired students through concept development, tactile exploration, vocabulary building, executive functioning, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Categorizing

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Cause and Effect

Learn how to teach cause and effect to blind and visually impaired students through concept development, hands-on experiences, reasoning, and meaningful everyday learning.

Also found as: Cause and Effect

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Change

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of change to blind and visually impaired students through routines, environmental awareness, executive functioning, flexibility, and accessible instructional strategies that pro...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Colors

Learn how to teach the meaning and function of colors to blind and visually impaired students through concept development, environmental awareness, accessibility, and real-world experiences.

Also found as: Colors

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Comparing

Learn how to teach comparing to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, concept development, reasoning, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Comparing

Foundational Cognitive Concept: End

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of end to blind and visually impaired students through routines, sequencing, story structure, transitions, task completion, and accessible instructional strategies that promote...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Enough

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of enough to blind and visually impaired students through quantity, estimation, executive functioning, decision-making, and accessible instructional strategies that promote inde...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Finished

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of finished to blind and visually impaired students through self-monitoring, task completion, executive functioning, routines, and accessible instructional strategies that build...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Middle

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of middle to blind and visually impaired students through spatial exploration, sequencing, routines, story structure, tactile learning, and accessible instruction.

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Missing

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of missing to blind and visually impaired students through organization, routines, comparison, executive functioning, and accessible instructional strategies that build independ...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Object Permanence

Learn how to teach object permanence to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, concept development, communication, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Object Permanence

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Order

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of order to blind and visually impaired students through sequencing, routines, organization, executive functioning, and accessible instructional strategies that build independen...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Part vs. Whole

Learn how to teach part-whole relationships to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, concept development, literacy, mathematics, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Part vs. Whole

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Pattern

Learn how to explicitly teach the concept of pattern to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, routines, mathematics, literacy, executive functioning, and accessible instructional strategies t...

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Quantity

Learn how to teach quantity concepts to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, concept development, mathematics readiness, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Quantity

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Sequencing

Learn how to teach sequencing to blind and visually impaired students through concept development, executive functioning, meaningful routines, and everyday experiences.

Also found as: Sequencing

Foundational Cognitive Concept: Sorting

Learn how to teach sorting to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, concept development, executive functioning, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Sorting

Foundational Cognitive Concepts: Matching

Learn how to teach matching to blind and visually impaired students through tactile exploration, concept development, cognitive learning, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Matching

Foundational Executive Function and Social Concept: Responsibility

Learn how to teach the concept of responsibility to blind and visually impaired students through explicit instruction, daily routines, executive functioning supports, and meaningful real-life experiences.

Also found as: Being Responsible

Foundational Social-Emotional Concept: Trust

Learn how to teach the concept of trust to blind and visually impaired students through explicit instruction, relationship-building, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Feeling Safe with Others

Full

Learn how to teach the concept of full to blind and visually impaired students through hands-on exploration, capacity, descriptive language, and meaningful everyday experiences.

Also found as: Filled

Independence

Learn how to teach independence to blind and visually impaired students through explicit instruction, self-advocacy, problem-solving, executive functioning, and everyday life experiences.

Also found as: Doing Things Independently

Independent Work

Learn how to teach independent work to blind and visually impaired students through explicit instruction, accessible supports, executive functioning strategies, and meaningful classroom routines.

Also found as: Working Independently