Focusing on the Possibilities for Stimulating Learning and Reading Braille.
Introduction In common with sighted people, the blind during the last fifty years have enjoyed a continuously increasing range of benefits which have come from the rapid and often bewildering advances in scientific knowledge that have been made in less than a normal life-time. Not the least of these benefits is the increasing volume and variety of braille literature which is becoming available through the development and increasing use of automated methods of production. But while it is highly desirable that this search for yet more efficient ways or producing p books should continue, it is surely no less desirable ( that thought should be given to devising ways of making braille a more satisfying and a more easily accessible ( reading medium. Studies already completed or now under way emphasise the need for a critical review of current methods of teaching braille reading and of the rationale for them. The purpose of this short paper is to describe briefly the research that...