Connection Pointe – Technology Education Tools for Blind Teachers and Students

Braille Institute of America, EG Technologies - Technology and Software Developer

We will development and deploy a tablet-based, fully accessible digital curriculum tool that allows our visually impaired instructors to effectively teach digital literacy skills to our blind students in one-on-one and group settings.

Student education pipeline

The demand for technology instruction, especially instruction for the visually impaired, is growing rapidly as the baby boomer population continues to age. These services are both specialized and usually very expensive. We have developed a technology education environment that employs visually impaired instructors to provide technology instruction to other visually impaired technology users. By providing our instructors with an accessible, tablet-based instruction tool our instructors will more efficiently handle their client load, provide more effective instruction and move their students through the curriculum more effectively – providing more students with this free, one-on-one service.

We will define success through the numbers of students that we are able to service and the increase in the number of students that complete one or more of our digital curriculum. We also hope to provide our alumni instructors with a version of this software that will allow them to provide similar services in their local community.