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Download full textTerzieff, Ivan; Ashcroft, S. C. – 1979
The study investigated ways of increasing reading rates by nine blind adults using the Optacon (Optical to Tactile Converter), a portable reading aid for the blind that converts the image of the printed letter into a pattern of vibrating rods. Ss' reading rates were examined when using instructional materials emphasizing linguistic structure, the…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Electromechanical Aids, Exceptional Child Research
Foulke, Emerson – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1971
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Exceptional Child Research, Reading Rate
Kederis, Cleves J.; Nolan, Carson Y. – 1972
A feasibility and planning study was conducted on braille code problems in five areas. The areas were textbook format, math and science, music notation, computer notation, and maps, charts, and diagrams. Problems in each of the areas were identified and defined by committees of experts. The problems were analysed and a determination was made of…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Demonstration Programs, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedGuarniero, Gerard – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1977
The author, who is congenitally blind, describes two training programs with a Tactile Vision Substitution System, including a mobile version of the device. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Electromechanical Aids, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedBerla, Edward P.; Butterfield, Lawrence H., Jr. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1977
Two experimental tactile political map designs were evaluated with 72 blind braille reading students (grades 4-12). (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Maps
Franks, Frank L.; Huff, Roger – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1977
Thirty-seven blind students (in grades 2, 3, and 4) were involved in a study to evaluate the tactile ruler familiarization unit (three vacuum-formed plastic sheets illustrating English, Metric, and English-Metric measurement units). (SBH)
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mathematics
Research and Development of Tactile Facsimile Reading Aid for the Blind (The Optacon). Final Report.
Linvill, John G. – 1973
Presented is a report on the 5-year project to develop the Optacon, an electronic device which allows the blind individual to read ordinary printed matter directly and independently. Chapter (1) provides and introduction and overview of the Optacon Project. Summarized in Chapter (2) is a chronological account of the Optacon Project which traces…
Descriptors: Blindness, Electromechanical Aids, Exceptional Child Research, Material Development
Peer reviewedBerla, Edward P.; Murr, Marvin J. – Journal of Special Education, 1975
Seventy-two blind braille students in grades 4 through 12 were given map reading tasks on tactile pseudomaps which either contained texture (noisy map) or didn't (noise-free map). (DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Maps
Morgali, Ronald R.; Lamon, William E. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1976
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Individualized Instruction
The Tactual Embedded Figures Task as a Measure of Field Dependence-Independence in Blind Adolescents
Huckabee, Malcom H.; Ferrell, Jack G., Jr. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1971
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Cognitive Processes, Exceptional Child Research
Toll, Dove – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
The National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution undertook a research project to determine what could be done to enable visually handicapped persons to benefit from the museum's resources. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Information Dissemination, Material Development
Kidwell, Ann Middleton; Greer, Peter Swartz – New Outlook for the Blind, 1972
Reported were the research, design and production of a sophisticated, challenging tactual mobility map (of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Campus) for highly motivated and mobile blind users. (GW)
Descriptors: Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Map Skills, Mobility Aids
LaDuke, Robert O. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1973
Reported was a study comparing the effectiveness of a brief period of instruction in various strategies in the scanning of a tactual pseudomap by 108 blind braille readers at the intermediate, junior high, and senior high levels. (DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research, Map Skills
Peer reviewedCaton, Hilda; Rankin, Earl – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1980
The study was designed to identify various problems encountered by 194 children who read braille and use conventional basal reading programs transcribed into that medium. The results showed educationally significant variability in chronological age, years in school, and grade level for blind children using basal reader materials designed for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Basal Reading, Blindness, Braille
James, Grahame; Swain, Richard – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries
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