Thirty-six braille students (grades 4 through 12) were asked to inspect a tactile display consisting of nine removable symbols. Students in the lower grades benefited most from the systematic searching training and were superior to the control group in the same grades. (Author)

Telephone interviews were conducted with 12 experienced blind adults to determine the strategies and techniques they employed in locating point, linear, and areal symbols and in following a track on a pseudo-map. (GW)

Two experiments with a total of 92 elementary grade blind students were conducted to determine the effects of training blind students in shape recognition accuracy and speed and accuracy of locating shapes on a tactile map by using a distinctive features analysis strategy and line tracing. (Author/DB)

Compared was the effectiveness of training in three different tactual map reading search patterns with 144 braille readers in grades 4-12. (LH)

Two experimental tactile political map designs were evaluated with 72 blind braille reading students (grades 4-12). (Author/CL)

Considered are current issues and trends in the instruction of orientation and mobility skills to blind children and adults. (DB)

Seventy-two blind braille students in grades 4 through 12 were given map reading tasks on tactile pseudomaps which either contained texture (noisy map) or didn't (noise-free map). (DB)