The entire report is a listing (made from scanning 7,500,000 words of text from 125 books) of the occurrences of braille contraction sequences. Attention focuses on occurrences in which syllabification, pronunciation, and meaning determine the use or nonuse of the contraction. An introduction explains the procedure and process used. (JM)

The selected bibliography of research on visually handicapped children contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of November, 1973. Abstracts are chosen using the criteria of…

Data were cited to emphasize stated research needs in prevention of blindness. (CB)

The author distinguishes between three separate aspects of sensory loss: impairment, handicap, and disability, and provides operational definitions of each aspect. (IM)

The purpose of the project was to gain information with which to improve the quality of tactual maps for the blind. Empirical studies of the pair-comparison type were conducted, using blind students as subjects, to determine discriminable sets of areal, linear, and point symbols made in plastic and to identify discriminable sets of linear and…

Reported were the results and implications of a study that investigated the role perception and performance of 56 blind adolescents when compared with their own expectations and the expectations of other persons. (CB)

Studied were current academic achievement of students using braille in arithmetic computation as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test, and the benefit of using a computational device. (CB)

Presented in the form of 30 tables are statistics on blindness in 16 states which have agreed to uniform definitions and procedures to improve reliability of data regarding blind persons. The data indicates that rates of blindness were generally higher for nonwhites than for whites with the ratio ranging from almost 10 for glaucoma to minimal for…