This presentation will illustrate techniques used by a chemistry instructor who happens to be totally blind. Skills of laboratory management along with technologies used for instruction to non-visually impaired students in this first semester in the general chemistry principles I course taught at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois will be discussed. Commentary on laboratory preparation and curriculum adaptations will also be presented. The use of access technologies (AT) such as text-to-speech screen reader software, talking touch tablets, and raised line drawings and Braille documents will be discussed. This use of AT illustrates how an instructor without vision can effectively and safely manage an entire teaching laboratory section of non-visually impaired students. This will give the audience member a sense of what students are experiencing. Further student testimony will be included as part of this presentation.

Methods used to teach a general chemistry principles I laboratory course as a totally blind instructor

245th National Meeting (2013)

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