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Huff, Roger; Franks, Frank – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1973
Evaluated was whether primary level visually handicapped tactile learners could successfully manipulate and discriminate the component parts of an instructional aid to introduce fractional parts of wholes. (DB)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research, Instructional Materials, Mathematics
Franks, Frank L.; Huff, Roger – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1976
A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of three-dimensional plastic models in teaching 71 visually handicapped students (in grades 1-3) to discriminate major body parts of insects, spiders, and earthworms. (SBH)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Entomology, Exceptional Child Research, Instructional Materials
Download full textKershman, Susan M.; Hart, Verna – 1975
A hypothesized hierarchy of tasks in the development of tactual discrimination (an essential skill for reading) was tested in 60 blind primary level children. For five braille and five Optacon (optical to tactile converter) sequences, Ss were asked to identify the different stimulus from the four presented. Scalogram analysis was used to examine…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
