Braille Music
Over ten years ago Miami Lighthouse created a unique Distance Learning Braille Music curriculum attracting national
and international students. Using Expert Learning License, the Braille Music Distance Learning curriculum is used
for in-home learning. To contact us for more information on how to join our
Braille Music online course, call Chief
Program Officer, Carol Brady-Simmons, call (786) 362-7480 or e-mail
mailto:csimmons@miamilighthouse.org.
Computer Applications
This Distance Learning Curriculum is designed to improve the digital literacy of blind and visually impaired
students so they can acquire in-home learning skills to access the internet using screen reading software, such as,
JAWS for Windows.
Students will learn to navigate to a desired webpage, read the page content using specific key stroke commands that
provide auditory feedback, locate a desired link, save a desired page, search the internet and read selected
accessible web pages. To contact us for more information on how to join our Computer Applications course, call Chief
Program Officer, Carol Brady-Simmons, call (786) 362-7480 or e-mail mailto:csimmons@miamilighthouse.org.
Early Learners
The Miami Lighthouse Academy LLC., in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, utilizes Family
Engagement Messaging Tool COR Advantage to communicate daily assignments and activities with parents. Teachers and
therapists interact with students through telehealth video conferencing and Unique Learning System and Bookshare are
used to deliver instruction.
To read more about Miami Lighthouse and distance learning click on these articles in
The Chronicle of Higher Education
and
The Miami Herald.
