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Peer reviewedPring, Linda – British Journal of Psychology, 1982
Conducted two experiments to investigate phonological and tactual coding in Braille reading by blind children. Results revealed a phonological effect in blind children's reading of single words. Also direct lexical access, from tactual input, proceeded with the same facility for the blind as does visual input for the sighted. (Author)
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Children, Elementary Education
Kershman, Susan M. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1976
Provided in the second of two articles is further evidence of the validity of the author's sequence of tactual discrimination tasks for partial development of Optacon use readiness in young blind children. (IM)
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
