RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
If you are not Blind yourself and received the same limited training I did on teaching Blind students, I recommend reaching out to your local commission for the Blind or any other major organizations for the Blind as they will provide you information on not just what the research says, but what everyday life is like and what is genuinely used by the community.
If you do not have local resources, Perkins School for the Blind, the oldest school for the Blind in the United States and alma mater of Helen Keller, 47 is an excellent resource.
More than Meets the Eye What Blindness Brings to Art by Georgina Kleege
Georgina Kleege is blind as has served as a consultant and expert on precisely what this book is about: how to make art museums more accessible to the blind, but moreover how the act of accessibility is not a benevolent gift but rather desperately needed to enrich everyone’s experience of the world. She writes from the personal and philosophical knowledge that blind people have just as much to teach others, and this book serves as the ultimate antidote to the deficit model of disability.
The Country of the Blind: Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland
While not referenced for this curriculum, I recommend this for further reading as Andrew Leland not only documents the loss of his vision to Retinosis Pigmentosa, documenting his journey of self-acceptance, learning Braille, relearning navigation, but also explores the culture of Blindness and the intersections of Blindness and race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and other abilities. All of us exist at intersections of identities and this book shows how Blindness is one of many for people.
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