ECC Areas
This area of the Expanded Core Curriculum teaches students to explore jobs and work-related skills.
What is Career Education?
This area of the ECC is addressed when you practice the cane technique.
What is Orientation & Mobility?
This is a form of written language in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips.
What is Braille?
A low-tech device that allows individuals to scan their environment for obstacles and orientation marks.
What is a white cane?
This woman was a famous author and disability rights activist. She lost her vision due to an illness when she was young. She learned to read and write thanks to her teacher Anne Sullivan.
Who is Helen Keller?
This area of the Expanded Core Curriculum teaches students how to navigate safely and orient themselves with their environment.
What is Orientation & Mobility?
This area of the ECC is addressed when you play a board game with a friend.
What is Recreation & Leisure?
The ability to navigate a computer utilizing different combinations of keys as an alternative to navigating with a computer mouse.
What are keyboard commands?
A device that can be low-tech and high-tech that allows individuals to write in braille code.
What is a Brailler/Braille Writer/ Perkin's Brailler?
From the ages of 12-15, this man spent time creating the written language that would become known as Braille Code. He did so after learning about military "Night Writing".
Who is Louise Braille?
This area of the Expanded Core Curriculum teaches students how to use high and low-tech devices that can be used as assistive or adaptive tools.
What is Assistive Technology?
This area of the ECC is addressed when you make plans with a new friend.
What is Social Interaction Skills?
This spacial code is used to demonstrate high-level mathematics and scientific concepts in braille.
What is Nemeth Code?
A high-tech device that can be made accessible with zoom features and VoiceOver.
What is an iPad?
This American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer is well known for his songs like "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" and "Sir Duke".
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This area of the Expanded Core Curriculum teaches students decision-making, self-advocacy, and problem-solving skills.
What is Self Determination?
This area of the ECC is addressed when you cook a meal for yourself.
What is Independent Living Skills?
This is when a person using a cane touches the ground in two places at the far sides of the cane arc.
What is two point touch?
A low-tech device that utilizes beads to perform math equations.
What is an abacus?
This American mathematician and inventor was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. He created a mathematics code for braille users.
Who was Dr. (Abraham) Nemeth?
This area of the Expanded Core Curriculum teaches students to use their senses such as hearing, touch, smell, taste, and vision efficiently.
What is Sensory Efficiency?
The area of the ECC that is addressed when you read a book in braille, large print, or any alternative format.
What is Compensatory Skills?
When you stretch your arm out in front at shoulder height with a slightly bent elbow. Your forearm should be parallel to your shoulders and your hand in line with the opposite shoulder.
What is upper protective technique?
What is a refreshable braille display?
This famous Italian tenor has recorded over 20 pop and classical albums, as well as seven complete operas. He has sold over 65 million albums worldwide.Originally diagnosed with glaucoma, this famous singer lost all of his vision at the age of 12.
Who is Andrea (Angel) Bocelli?