Friendship Tea: 1 (Through Kenyan Eyes) - Softcover

Maida, Sharon; Rankel, Lillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542993911 ISBN 13: 9781542993913

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

This book has been written for the blind and low-vision children of Africa, and their families and friends. It will be introduced at St. Joseph’s Kiomiti School for the Blind in Gesusu, Kenya where young children and their families are being brought together to learn and share ideas about independence and safety and to meet the educational aspirations of the children.Children who live close to the school will live in their homes while others will have the opportunity to reside at two recently-built dormitories. This book is the first in a series of 4 books which chronicle different situations that blind and low vision children face. Our wish is that these books will bring acceptance, independence, happiness and empowerment to blind and low vision children throughout Africa and the rest of the world!!

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Sharon Maida has been teaching blind and visually impaired children for 30 years. She has taught braille and is an orientation and mobility specialist in private practice. Sharon is the author of two other books, Reaching, Crawling, Walking… Let’s Get Moving and Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Creeping. She is dedicated to improving education for blind children around the world. Dr. Lillian Rankel, a research chemist at Mobil, changed careers to become a high school chemistry and physics teacher in 1996. In 2006, she had a blind student in Honors Chemistry who utilized her adaptations and tactile methods to complete the course, including labs. She subsequently co-authored a large print/braille book, Out-of-Sight Science Experiments. Dr. Rankel is working to improve education at a blind grammar school in Kenya.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1542993911
• ISBN 13: 9781542993913
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Popovic Danijela
• Number of pages: 32
• Editor: Bentrim William G