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Rowland, Charity – 1985
The paper examines the use of concrete symbol systems to make the transition from presymbolic to formal symbolic communication for deaf blind students. Comments focus on expressive use of concrete symbols and address two issues requiring further research: (1) the critical features of referent objects, concrete symbols, and concrete symbol arrays…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deaf Blind, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedMcLinden, Mike – British Journal of Special Education, 1995
The Progressive Tactile Timetable was developed to enable pupils with visual impairments and severe learning difficulties to progress from use of concrete symbols (objects of reference) to the abstract tactile Moon code (a simplified raised line version of the Roman print alphabet). A case study illustrates its application with an adolescent with…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Decoding (Reading), Downs Syndrome
