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Foulke, Emerson – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1970
Descriptors: Braille, Reading, Reading Rate, Research Projects
Download full textNewman, Slater E.; And Others – 1988
Two experiments were conducted with 80 college students to examine factors associated with the crossmodal facilitation of learning Braille symbols when the visual modality is utilized. In Experiment 1 subjects using the haptic mode were informed of both the structure of the braille cell and the range of dot numerosity of the symbols to be…
Descriptors: Braille, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Newman, Slater E.; And Others – 1988
The study examined modality effects in the learning of Braille through providing a variety of either study or test trials in either the visual or haptic modalities. Subjects were 144 right handed college students. Results supported previous experiments demonstrating the visual modality superior to the combined visual-haptic or the haptic modality…
Descriptors: Braille, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Hampshire, Barry E. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Exceptional Child Education, Literature Reviews
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development. – 1967
The problems of providing sensory aids for the blind are presented and a report on the present status of aids discusses direct translation and recognition reading machines as well as mobility aids. Aspects of required research considered are the following: assessment of needs; vision, audition, taction, and multimodal communication; reading aids,…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception, Braille, Equipment Evaluation
