Articles About Braille

• Blindness.growingstrong.org
  This website has many articles about the importance of braille, sources and tips about braille instruction, and information about emergent readers.
  http://blindness.growingstrong.org/ed/literacy.html
• Braille Information Center
  A Canadian site with information and resources about braille.
  www.cnib.ca/eng/Braille_information/importance.htm
• A site with articles collected by the International Braille Research Center of the National Federation of the Blind.
  www.Braille.org/papers/index.htm

  Articles include:

  • A Primary Reading Program for Beginning Braille Readers
  • A Study of Braille Reading
  • A Study of Braille Reading: Patterns of Hand Activity in One-Handed and Two-Handed Reading
  • Automated Training and Braille Reading
  • Braille Reading and Left and Right Hemispace
  • Braillists, Braille Technology, Braille Readers and Braille
  • Investigative Approaches to the Study of Reading Braille
  • Patterns of Response in the Perception of Braille Configurations
  • A Universal Computer Braille Code for Literary and Scientific Texts
  • Tactile Acuity, Aging, and Braille Reading in Long-Term Blindness
  • Transfer of a Complex Perceptual Skill
  • A Critical Evaluation of the Historical Development of the Tactile Modes and Reading and an Analysis and Evaluation of Researches Carried Out in Endeavors to Make the Braille Code Easier to Read and to Write
  • Variables Influencing the Identification of Single Braille Characters
  • Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness -- May-June 1996: Special Edition on Literacy

• Ensuring High-Quality Instruction for Students in Braille Literacy Programs
  Source: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Nov 2000, Vol. 94 Issue 11, p 677, 18p
  Author(s): Koenig, Alan J.; Holbrook, M. Cay
  Abstract: This study used the Delphi research method to gain a consensus among 40 professionals on the appropriate levels of instructional service to address the needs of students with visual impairments in 12 areas of braille literacy skills. These resulting recommendations are general guidelines for educational teams to follow in designing braille literacy programs, but must be tailored to address the individual needs of each student.
  AN: 3857465
  ISSN: 0145-482X
• The Impact of Braille Reading Skills on Employment, Income, Education, and Reading Habits
  Source: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, May/Jun 96, Vol. 90 Issue 3, p 219, 8p, 1 chart, 4 graphs
  Author(s): Ryles, R.
  Abstract: Compares the outcomes for congenitally legally blind adults in the United States, who learned to read Braille or print as their original reading medium. Reading skills; Employment; Income; Education; Reading habits.
  AN: 9606204214
  ISSN: 0145-482X