Font Eases Reading for People with Dyslexia

I love when people share resources! I just got an email from a colleague with a link to a website of fonts to download (thanks, Ruth!). The font is called Open-Dyslexic, and here's what the author wrote about it:

Font created to help dyslexic readers. Bottom heavy and unique character shapes help make it more difficult to confuse letters.

OpenDyslexic(open-dyslexic) by Abelardo Gonzalez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

This means, as long as you visibly give credit, you can use this on your ebook, ebook reader, actual physical books, web sites, etc.

Included are 3 styles of OpenDyslexic: OpenDyslexic, OpenDyslexic w/ alt rounded a's, and OpenDyslexicMono: for your fixed-width font needs.

Check out the fonts; there's a link to download them for free, with an opportunity to donate to the author. The website is http://www.dafont.com/open-dyslexic.font

If you put 'braille' in the search field on this website, you'll see that there are some braille fonts, as well, free for personal use. 

Sharing Skills

Well, I can't believe it's been over a year since I posted anything here. I'm going to try to be better this year, and will start with a short video to share. One of our fantastic teachers, Jinger, shared her method for teaching students with visual impairments  how to tie their shoes. I happened to have my iPhone with me and just took a short video of her demonstration. I posted the video to YouTube. You can check it out at the link below:
Jinger's method to teach how to tie shoes.

I'm hoping to do some more of these quick videos this year. There are so many teachers in our program who have wonderful ideas and I'd love for us to share our skills this year.