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Direct linkEmerson, Robert Wall; Holbrook, M. Cay; D'Andrea, Frances Mary – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
The Alphabetic Braille and Contracted Braille Study examined the reading and writing skills of young braille-reading students. Students who were introduced to more contractions earlier in instruction performed better on reading measures, such as vocabulary, decoding, and comprehension, but all students did well in spelling. Thus, the authors…
Descriptors: Braille, Writing Skills, Literacy, Reading Skills
