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Unified English Braille in the United Kingdom: Part 1--Examination by Technical Expert Braille Users
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Cryer, Heather; Home, Sarah; Morley Wilkins, Sarah – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2013
The Unified English Braille (UEB) code has already been adopted by various countries. To inform the decision about UK adoption, a suite of research was carried out with UK braille readers and other stakeholders. Previous research indicates that readers of technical braille codes may be most affected by a move to UEB. In this study, six technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Braille, Adoption (Ideas), Scientific and Technical Information
Unified English Braille in the United Kingdom: Part 2--Examination by Literary Braille Users, Braille Teachers, and Transcribers
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Cryer, Heather; Home, Sarah; Morley Wilkins, Sarah – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2013
To inform decision-making around the adoption of the Unified English Braille (UEB) code in the United Kingdom, a suite of research was carried out. This study involved a variety of braille stakeholders--student braille readers (in full time education), adult braille readers, braille teachers, and braille transcribers. Participants were sent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Braille, Adoption (Ideas), Coding
Windows of Perception: A Review of the Literature Concerning Uncontracted and Contracted Literary Braille
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Clunies-Ross, Louise – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2005
This literature review took place during 2004, and shows that the braille debate over Grade 1 and Grade 2 has been ongoing for more than 70 years. Given the span of time and a remit that covered the English-speaking world, a chronological approach was taken, focusing on the two main strands of policy and empirical research, from the early 20th…
Descriptors: Braille, Literature Reviews, Research, Reading
Reading Difficulties in Blind, Braille-Reading Children
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Coppins, Natasha; Barlow-Brown, Fiona – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2006
An account is given of a new research project that is concerned with examining the problems encountered by some young blind children as they learn to read braille. The research to be conducted will look at various developmental and learning theories that are used to explain the reading difficulties of sighted readers, with a view to ascertaining…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Reading Difficulties, Blindness, Braille
Learning to Read by Touch: Developing Braille Reading Schemes
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Arnold, Alison – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2004
This article describes the work of a group of professionals in the United Kingdom known as the VIEW Braille Literacy Committee, committed to the development of teaching braille. Members meet each school term and have had the support of the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) in realizing numerous projects aimed at improving access to…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills
Teaching Braille to Children
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Keil, Sue – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2004
This research looked at the population of children learning braille in Britain, where they are being educated, and issues concerned with teaching braille and with training of teachers of braille. A national postal questionnaire survey of local education authority (LEA) visual impairment (VI) advisory services and one specialist school for blind…
Descriptors: Partial Vision, Blindness, Braille, School Districts