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Klingenberg, Oliv G. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2012
Introduction: The study presented here investigated the ways in which students who read braille were able to complete geometric tasks and how they constructed mental representations of the shapes of objects. Methods: Data were collected in an educational experiment conducted as a geometry course for students who read braille. A case study approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Visual Impairments, Braille
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Klingenberg, Oliv G.; Fosse, Per; Augestad, Liv Berit – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2012
Introduction: The study presented here estimated the occurrence of braille-reading students in Norway who were educated according to their grade-level progression in mathematics from 1967 to 2007. It also analyzed the association among these students' progression in mathematics and the causes of visual impairment, the age at which the diagnosis…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Visual Impairments, Braille, Foreign Countries
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Vik, Astrid Kristin; Lassen, Liv M. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2010
This article explores how 11 pupils with severe visual impairment cope with reading activities in inclusive Norwegian schools. All pupils received instruction in braille and print, and used an audio-text format. Having multiple reading options provided possibilities for pupils to achieve reading skills, but also generated stress. Theories of…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Visual Impairments, Coping, Reading Skills
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Vik, Astrid Kristin; Fellenius, Kerstin – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2007
Six primary school-aged braille students were taught to name 4 to 10 braille letters as phonemes and another 4 to 10 braille letters as graphemes (Study 1). They were then taught to name 10 braille words as onset-rimes and another 10 braille words as whole words (Study 2). Instruction in phonemes and onset rimes resulted in fewer trials and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Reading Instruction, Mainstreaming