Instructional Strategies for Braille Literacy

by Wormsley, Diane P.; D'Andrea, Frances Mary; D'Andrea, Frances Mary; American Foundation for the Blind

• ISBN13: 9780891289364
• ISBN10: 0891289364
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Amer Foundation for the Blind

Summary

This award-winning, user-friendly handbook provides instructors with specific creative strategies and methodologies for teaching braille. Intended to help pre-service and in-service teachers develop their instructional literacy and braille skills, this comprehensive manual provides a wealth of information on working with children with congenital or adventitious visual impairments as well as students with additional disabilities or who are speakers of English as a second language.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
About the Contributors	p. xiii
Braille as the Primary Literacy Medium: General Guidelines and Strategies	p. 1
Fostering Emergent Literacy	p. 17
Learning to Read, Reading to Learn: Teaching Braille Reading and Writing	p. 57
Making the Transition from Print to Braille	p. 111
Teaching Braille to Students with Special Needs	p. 145
Teaching Braille Reading and Writing to Students Who Speak English as a Second Language	p. 189
Assessing the Literacy Skills of Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired	p. 231
Access to Information: Technology and Braille	p. 269
Reprints	p. 309
Resources	p. 369
Index	p. 449
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