Creating and Using Tactile Experience Books for Young Children with Visual Impairments.

Lewis, Sandra; Tolla, Joan

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ERIC Number: EJ657390

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Publication Date: 2003

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Creating and Using Tactile Experience Books for Young Children with Visual Impairments.

Lewis, Sandra; Tolla, Joan

TEACHING Exceptional Children, v35 n3 p22-28 Jan-Feb 2003

This article explores how tactile experience books can be used to ensure that young children with visual impairments learn to read. It discusses making tactile experience books by collecting artifacts and gluing them to cardboard pages, and the benefits of tactile books. Descriptions of two tactile books are provided. (Contains references.) (CR)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Construction (Process), Design Requirements, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Tactile Adaptation, Tactile Stimuli, Visual Impairments, Young Children

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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