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Liedtke, Werner W.; Stainton, Linda B. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1994
This article offers teaching strategies for developing number sense for children who are blind and braille users. Suggestions focus on developing number meanings, exploring number relationships with manipulatives, understanding the relative magnitude of numbers, developing intuitions about the relative effect of operating on numbers, and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Elementary Education, Manipulative Materials

Simmons, Joyce Nesker; Davidson, Iain F. W. K. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
This article examines special problems in assessing young blind children resulting from their great heterogeneity. Case studies are offered to illustrate the irresponsibility of applying standardized tests developed for sighted populations to blind children who have very different experiential backgrounds. Positive principles for assessment of the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Blindness, Case Studies, Elementary Education