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Direct linkHughes, Barry; McClelland, Amber; Henare, Dion – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
Relative to print reading, braille-reading finger movements are held to be of more constant speed, with continuous and exhaustive contact with all words. However, the continuity of movements is intermittent in two distinct ways: (a) readers reverse direction and reread material already encountered and (b) the continual fluctuations of velocity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Braille, Blindness, Reading
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
Goudiras, Dimitrios B.; Papadopoulos, Konstantinos S.; Koutsoklenis, Athanasios Ch.; Papageorgiou, Virginia E.; Stergiou, Maria S. – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2009
The aim of this study was to examine reading media (braille, cassettes, screen-reader, screen-magnifier, large print, low vision aids, CCTV) used by visually impaired adults. This article reports the results of a research project involving 100 people with visual impairment. The participants were interviewed and asked to fill in a questionnaire to…
Descriptors: Large Type Materials, Place of Residence, Visual Impairments, Audio Equipment
Download full textLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC. Div. for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. – 1989
The National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, administers a free national library program for persons with visual or physical handicaps who cannot use normal print materials. The following features of this service are discussed: (1) types of materials chosen (full-length books and magazines for…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Audiodisks, Audiotape Recordings
Cookson, John; Cylke, Frank Kurt; Dixon, Judith; Kormann, Wells B.; Moodie, Michael M.; Redmond, Linda – 2002
This monograph summarizes the status of the Library of Congress's National Library Service (NLS) Talking Book Digital Conversion Project, a project to offer digital sound reproducers and its library materials in digital format beginning in 2008. Following an introductory section describing National Library Service services and users and the…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Blindness, Braille
