Literacy and Communication Skills

Braille Transcribers' Kit: Math
Geometry Tactile Graphics Kit
Howe Press
Mathematics by G. Kapperman, T. Heinze & J. Sticken in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments
Swail Dot Inverter
Tactile Math Graphics

Orientation & Mobility

Chang Tactual Diagram Kit
O&M Tactile Graphics
Orientation Aids in Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, Second Edition
Resources for Preparing Quality Tactile Graphics
TAPS

Pre-Reading Activities

Experience Stories for Functionally Blind Pre-readers
Object Books

Resources

Resources for Preparing Quality Tactile Graphics
Tactile Graphics, An Overview and Resource Guide
Tactile Graphics

Science

Social Studies and Science, in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments

Social Studies

Social Studies and Science, in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments

Tactile Symbols For Functional Learners

Basic Skills for Community Living
Experience Stories for Functionally Blind Pre-readers
Object Books
Tactile Symbols, Directory to Tactile Symbols List

Uncontracted Braille

One Is Fun
Reading For Everyone: Expanding Literacy Options

Writing Skills (Braille)

Beginning with Braille
Braille FUNdamentals: A Braille Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments for Primary to High School Levels
Braille Writing Dot by Dot
Patterns: The Primary Braille Reading Program
Patterns: The Primary Braille Spelling and English Program

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**Literacy Resources**
ID #	Title	Annotation	Author	Media	Category
L1	The Braille Connection: A Braille Reading and Writing Program for Former Print Users	This curriculum is designed to teach braille to adult and teenage print readers with acquired blindness. It begins with uncontracted braille then advances to contracted braille.	none given		Instruction of Adventitiously Blind, Curricula
L2	Braille Too: An Instructional Braille Reading and Writing Program for Secondary Students	This is a comprehensive program for teaching braille reading and writing to adolescents who have been print readers in their elementary years. It is not designed to teach students to read or write. It is assumed that they already have at least minimum competency in these skills.	N. L. Hepker & S. Cross-Coquillette.		Instruction of Adventitiously Blind, Curricula
L3	Impact of Adolescents' Adjustment to Progressive Vision Loss on Braille Reading Skills: Case Studies	This article presents case studies of three adolescent boys with progressive vision loss who gradually became blind during adolescence. Examines the relationship between the boys' psychological adjustment to their blindness and their acquisition of braille reading skills. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 91 ( 5) pp. 301-308.	Truan, M.B. & Trent, S.D.		Instruction of Adventitiously Blind
L4	BRAILLE FUNdamentals: A Braille Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments for Primary to High School Levels	This is a comprehensive program for teaching the Braille code. The sequence for introducing Braille configurations is based on research that identifies which configurations are easiest to learn, accumulated teaching eience, and a desire to reduce reversals. It also includes rules of usage and games.	J. Cleveland, N. Levack, D. Sewell, R. Toy		Instruction of Adventitiously Blind, Assessment, Curricula, Games, Writing Skills, Beginning Reading
L5	Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments	This kit offers a comprehensive set of informal checklists to assess compensatory skill areas. It also includes print and braille versions of Jerry Johns' Basic Reading Inventory.	D. Sewell, Ed.		Assessment
L6	Assessment of Braille Literary Skills (ABLS)	This assessment provides teachers of students who are blind with a tool that provides meaningful assessment of braille literacy skills.	A. J. Koenig & C. Farrenkopf		Assessment
L7	Foundations of Braille Literacy	This book looks at what we know about braille as a medium for literacy, the ways in which we teach and assess braille reading and writing, and the needs that should be addressed in the future.	E. J. Rex. J. Koenig, D. P. Wormsley, & R. L. Baker		Assessment, Instructional Strategies, Resources
L8	Learning Media Assessment for Students with Visual Impairments: A Resource Guide for Teachers	This book provides a conceptual framework and structured guidelines to follow in the decision making process for selecting the appropriate literacy media for students with visual impairments. A number of checklists and forms are provided to take the assessor through the steps of this process.	A. J. Koenig, & M. C. Holbrook		Assessment, Learning Media Assessment, Dual Media
L9	Minnesota Braille Skills Inventory (MBSI)	The main purpose of the MBSI is to document a student's knowledge and progress in reading and writing braille and to determine a student's and needs in reading and writing braille. The MBSI consists of a resource manual which is a reference for teachers and includes information on administration, inventory development, teaching strategies, forms for data collection, and resources. The student companion is a braille version of the inventory intended for use by the students in completing the reading subscales of the MBSI. This will be available November 2002 through: Minnesota Educational Services at Capital View Center 70 West Co. Rd. B2 Little Canada, MN 55117-1402	A. Goodwin, L. Grafsgaard, N. Hanson, P. Hooey, J. Martin, D. McNear, C. Rieber, E. Tillmanns		Assessment
L10	Specialized Assessments for Students with Visual Impairments in A. J. Koenig and M.C. Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments	This chapter discusses the Functional Vision Evaluation, the Learning Media Assessment and the Assistive Technology Assessment for students with visual impairments. ISBN: 0-89128-339-0	Koenig, et. Al.		Assessment, Learning Media Assessment
L11	Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic	This national library provides books on tape and on compact disc.	N/A		Accessible Books, Family Resources, Large Print Books, Libraries
L12	Recorded Books, LLC	This is a large catalog of complete and unabridged audiobooks. It also includes Accelerated Reader titles.	N/A		Accessible Books, Family Resources
L13	Texas State Library, Talking Book Program	Statewide library that provides large print and braille books by mail to those with visual impairments. (Texas only)	N/A		Accessible Books, Family Resources, Instructional Aids/Materials, Large Print Books, Libraries
L15	Literacy Skills in A. J. Koenig and M.C. Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments	This chapter thoroughly discusses literacy, tools used to increase literacy and instructional strategies. ISBN: 0-89128-339-0	A. Koenig and M. Holbrook		Auditory Skills, Dual Media, Instructional Strategies, Resources
L16	Beginning with Braille	This book provides multiple suggestion, tips and ideas for improving the literacy skills of young children learning to read and write in braille. ISBN: 0891283234	Swenson, Anna M.		Beginning Reading (Braille), Instructional Strategies, Writing
L17	The Mangold Developmental Program of Tactile Perception and Braille Letter Recognition	The program is designed to promote efficient two-handed braille reading and decrease undesirable scrubbing and back-tracking behaviors, as well as errors in braille letter recognition.	S. Mangold		Beginning Reading (Braille), Curricula, Tactual Sensitivity
L18	Patterns: The Primary Braille Spelling and English Program	This program teaches complete spelling and language skills to primary grade student who use braille as their primary literacy medium. It is composed of tests, posttests, worksheets and teacher's editions. There are four levels. This program is a companion to the Patterns Braille Reading Program.	H. Caton, E. Pester, E. J. Bradley, E. P. Hamp		Beginning Reading (Braille), Curricula, Braille Writing
L19	Patterns: The Primary Braille Reading Program	This program is designed for beginning braille readers from the readiness level through the third reading level. Word recognition is taught through tactual memory, phonological skills, and syntactical skills. Patterns contains a variety of learning materials including a braille tend worksheets for all levels. A teacher's edition with lesson plans is also provided.	H. Caton, E. Pester, & E. J. Bradley		Beginning Reading (Braille), Curricula, Braille Writing
L20	Prepatory Reading Program for Visually Handicapped Children (PREP)	This program for students who are potentially braille readers or large type readers focuses on the ten concepts considered to be most directly related to the reading process. Instructional objectives are included for each key concept as well as multisensory lessons which teach these objectives. Each unit also includes a storybook in large print and braille.	A. Hall, B. Rodabaugh, C. Smith		Beginning Reading (Braille), Curricula, Emergent Literacy Skills
L21	The Braille Enthusiast's Dictionary	This is a comprehensive, easy to use reference for those who work in any capacity with braille. ISBN: 0-9634229-5-2	A. J. Koenig & M. C. Holbrook		Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides, Resources
L22	Braille Rules/Charts	This websit provides reference guides for Braille and Nemeth codes.	Charlotte W. Ovard		Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides, Family Resources, Resources
L23	English Braille American Edition 1994	This is the official code book for English Braille American Edition.	N/A		Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides, Resources
L24	Braille Bug	This site is devoted to public awareness about braille for children, includes on-line games and riddles.	N/A		Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Family Resources
L25	Understanding Braille Literacy	This video provides an overview of a successful braille literacy program. Good for use with general education teachers, administrators and parents ISBN: 0-89128-261-0	N/A		Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Family Resources, Resources
L26	The Braille Trail Parent/Teacher Guide	This books offers students, parents, and teachers, a delightful and fascinating introduction to braille. Designed to teach sighted children about braille and to encourage literacy among all children. ISBN: 0-89128-862-7	F. M. D'Andrea		Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Family Resources, Instructional Aids
L27	National Braille Press	Nonprofit braille printing and publishing house. It offers a braille book-of-the-month club.	N/A		Braille/Print Books, Braille Publishers, Instructional Aids/Materials, Family Resources
L28	Seedlings, Braille Books for Children	This is a catalog of braille books for children. It contains titles that are in contracted and uncontracted braille.	N/A		Braille/Print Books, Braille Publishers, Instructional Aids/Materials, Family Resources
L29	On the Way to Literacy: Early Experiences for Visually Impaired Children	This program contains basic information and activities to enhance the development of literacy in young blind or visually impaired children. It consists of a print handbook for parents and teachers and 13 tactile/visual storybooks to be read to young children. The storybooks are in braille and print and feature tactile and visual illustrations.	J. M. Stratton & S. Wright		Braille/Print Books, Curricula, Emergent Literacy Skills
L30	Braille Writing Dot by Dot	This program is designed to provide instruction in writing braille with either a braillewriter or a slate and stylus. This kit focuses on beginning writing skills.	E. Pester & F. Otto		Curricula, Slate and Stylus, Braille Writing
L31	Patterns Prebraille Program	This program is designed to help children before they begin a basic braille reading program. It helps build a child's auditory, tactual, conceptual, and language abilities in preparation for braille reading and math.	H. Caton, E. Pester, E. J. Bradley, K. S. Coy		Curricula, Emergent Literacy Skills
L32	Braille Literacy Curriculum	This book provides teaching strategies and instructional tips for teaching braille across the curriculum. ISBN # 1-930526-00-8	Diane Wormsley		Curricula
L33	Teaching Braille Slate and Stylus: A Manual for Mastery	This manual contains all the information you will need to become, or help someone else become a proficient slate user.	P. N. Mangold		Curricula, Slate and Stylus
L34	Teaching Signature Writing to Those Who Are Visually Impaired	This program offers a creative teaching method that will help teach students as well as adults how to make an acceptable legal signature. It is composed of a 35 minute video and a supplementary booklet which is available in print, large print, and braille.	S. Mangold & M.E. Pesavento		Curricula, Signature Writing
L36	Instructional Strategies for Braille Literacy	This book is a compilation of successful instructional strategies for teaching braille to blind and visually impaired students that will allow them to achieve braille literacy to the best of their abilities. ISBN: 0-89128-936-4	Wormsley, Diane P. & D'Andrea, FM		Dual Media, Instructional Strategies
L37	Finding Ebooks on the Internet	The author, who is visually impaired explains where to locate books in different formats on the internet.	Anna Dreser		Accessible Books, Ebooks
L38	Downloadable Braille Materials	Fill out this form to receive a password so you can download books for students in braille.	N/A		Accessible Books, Ebooks
L39	Object Books	A description of object books and their uses is given.	M. Smith, D. Sewell and S. Shafer		Emergent Literacy Skills
L40	Functional Academics: A Curriculum for Students with VI	This guide addresses what to teach as well as how to teach by discussing strategies, adaptations, and procedures for planning and documentation. (It does not contain teaching activities.)	S. Hauser, L. Newton, & N. Levack, Eds.		Functional Braille, Curricula
L41	Reading For Everyone: Expanding Literacy Options	The use of using uncontracted braille with students with multiple impairments is discussed.	Cyral Miller & Ann Rash		Functional Braille, Grade 1 Braille
L42	Guidelines and Games for Teaching Efficient Braille Reading	This books provides parents, vision teachers, and regular classroom teachers with ideas for adapting a general reading program to the needs of braille readers. Activities and games offered provide enrichment to the traditional teaching of braille reading skills from the pre-school level through grade three. Suggestions for working with remedial readers, regardless of their ages, are also presented. ISBN: 0-89128-105-3	M. R. Olson & S. Mangold		Games, Instructional Strategies
L43	One is Fun: Guidelines for Better Braille Literacy	The use of uncontracted braille with a variety of students is discussed.	Margorie Troughton		Uncontracted Braille
L44	Script Letter Sheet & Board	Used for teaching signature writing, this kit provides embossed script letters on sheets and incised script letters on a board.	N/A		Signature Writing
L45	American Printing House for the Blind (Literacy and Communication Products)	Vendor of products for the instruction of visually impaired students.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials, Accessible Books, Large Print Books
L46	BRL: Braille Through Remote Learning	This site provides tools and resources related to braille which includes contraction lists.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials, Family Resources, Resources
L47	Tack-Tiles	A teaching tool similar to Lego Blocks used for improving braille literacy skills.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
L48	Tactual Discrimination Worksheets	These worksheets come in four sections to increase discrimination skills.	N/A		Tactual Sensivity
L49	Exceptional Teaching Aids	A vendor of products for the instruction of visually impaired students.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
L50	LS&S Group	This is a catalog of products for the visually and hearing impaired.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
L51	Lighthouse Catalog	This is a catalog of products for the visually impaired.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
L52	Teaching Faster Braille Reading in the Primary Grades	Recent studies have reported considerable success in teaching the visually handicapped techniques of rapid reading. Most of the braille readers participating in these studies had been reading for several years; little if any efforts have been made toward application of rapid reading principles in the primary grades. This article identifies twelve rapid reading principles and discusses their implementation by itinerant or resource teachers of beginning braille readers. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 71(3) 122-124.	Olson, Myrna R.		Instructional Strategies
L53	APH Catalog of Accessible Books	This is a very thorough catalog of books available for purchase in the following medias: regular print, recorded, braille and enlarged type.	N/A		Accessible Boooks, Large Print Books
L54	Literacy for Students with Low Vision: A Framework for Delivering Instruction	"This study identified the levels of direct and consultative instructional services needed for teaching literacy skills to students with low vision. The findings support the need to provide consistent, direct instruction to students with low vision in almost all areas of literacy and literacy-related skills."	Anne Corn and Alan Koenig		Students with Low Vision
L55	Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy Skills in Students with Low Vision	This book gives tips on helping students with low vision increase their literacy skills. Topics include assessment, low vision devices, low vision exams and more. ISBN: 0-89128-346-3	F. M. D'Andrea and C. Farrenkoft, Eds.		Students with Low Vision
L56	The Bridge to Braille	This is a practical step by step guide showing parents and teachers how to help blind children progress in literacy.	Castellano, Carol & Kosman, Dawn		Family Resources
L57	Just Enough to Know Better: A Braille Primer for Sighted Parents	This book was written for parents of children with visual impairments who have no prior knowledge of braille but would like to learn.	Curran, Eileen		Family Resources
L58	The Computerized Braille Tutor	Downloadable program which provides instruction and practice with immediate feedback for individuals interested in learning or reviewing the basic literary braille code.	G. Kapperman, Toni Heinze et. al.		Family Resources, Resources
L59	Connecting the Dots: A Parent's Resource for Promoting Early Braille Literacy	A free information kit for parents providing information on the braille code, braille books and how to make braille books.	N/A		Family Resources
L60	Hadley School for the Blind	This school provides correspondence coursework for parents, teachers and those interested in learning subjects related to visual impairment.	N/A		Family Resources, Resources
L61	Children's Braille Book of the Month Club	For $100 per year, receive a monthly children's book, from preschool to 3rd grade, in twin vision format (print and braille).	N/A		Family Resources
L62	American Foundation for the Blind Bookstore	This website provides AFB's most current on-line catalog.	N/A		Resources
L63	Communication Skills for Visually Impaired Learners: Braille, Print and Listening Skills for Students Who Are Visually Impaired	This book is designed to provide a foundation for a better understanding of the teaching of communication skills to children, youth, and adults with visual impairments. ISBN Cloth 0-398-06692-2 ISBN Paper 0-398-06693-0	R. K. Harley, M. B. Truan, & L. D. Sanford		Resources, Auditory Skills
L64	DOTS for Braille Literacy and Listserve for Braille Help	Newsletter published three times a year promoting braille literacy. Also, a listserv dedicated to those working with braille and have questions regarding braille rules, formating, books, supplies, etc. Subscribe by sending a blank message to brlhelp-a-subscribe@igc.topica.com	N/A	Other	Listserv,Resources
L65	Elementary Reading Skills Continuum	This is a pre-reading skills and reading skills continuum for print and braille readers in grades K-5.	TSBVI Teachers		Resources
L66	Free Items Available from the American Foundation for the Blind	Posters, bookmarks and literacy kits for parents and teachers are available for free at this website.	N/A		Family Resources, Instructional Aids/ Materials, Resource
L68	Teaching The Braille Slate and Stylus	This 18 minute video demonstrates appropriate teaching techniques and students adequately using the slate and stylus.	Sally Mangold		Slate and Stylus
L69	American Printing House for the Blind, Student Supplies	Student supplies include folders for braille papers, paper, slate and stylus, dark-lined paper, etc.	N/A		Student Supplies
L70	Can Reading and Writing Braille Be Taught Effectively On An Itinerant Basis?	This point/counterpoint feature evaluates braille literacy instruction in three commentaries by A. J. Koenig, J. E. Olmstead, and E. J. Rex. The commentaries indicate that itinerant instruction of braille skills can be effective with adequate student motivation and requisite skills, school staff and family support, vigilant focus on student needs, and adequate commitment of teaching time. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness 89 (4) pp. 101-108	A. Koenig and J. Olmstead, E. Red		Resources
L71	Braille is Beautiful	A kit and curriculum for sighted school aged children promoting braille literacy and social acceptance of visually impaired people.	Betsy Zaborowski		Curricula, Braille Literacy for the Sighted, Family Resources
L72	Accessible Textbooks Clearinghouse	Links to accessible text books	N/A		Accessible Books
L73	Braille International	This is a producer of adult and childrens' braille books, this organization has appropriately 1400 books on hand and can make books on demand.	N/A		Braille/Print Books, Family Resources, Instructional Aids/Materials, Braille Publishers
L74	Presenting Information to the General Public, in Koenig and Holbrook (Eds.) Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II	This chapter gives ideas for presenting to the public regarding the visually impaired population. ISBN: 0-89128-340-4	A. Koenig		Braille Literacy for the Sighted
L75	American Printing House for the Blind (English Language Arts Products)	This section of the APH catalog provides items that are specific to use with visually impaired students when teaching Language Arts Skills.	N/A		Instructional Aids/Materials
L76	Project SLATE: Supporting Literacy Acievement and Teacher Effectiveneess for StudentsWho are Blind and Visually Impaired	This website provides information to parents, teachers and administrators regarding literacy for the student who is visually impaired.	N/A		Parent Resources, Resources
L77	SAL - Speech Assisted Learning	A new interactive learning device which enables students to use worksheets on a computerized platform compiled with computerized disks to learn and practice braille. Courseware title are now available.	Sally Mangold		Instructional Aids/Materials
L78	Literary Braille Refresher Course For Teachers And Transcribers, Revised	A helpful book to for those who need to brush up on their braille skills.	NBA		Braille Literacy for the Sighted
L101	Aluminum Diagramming Foil for Use with Tactile Graphics Kit	Use this aluminum foil for creating masters of raised-line graphics. (available only through print catalog)	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
L102	American Printing House for the Blind (Tactile Graphics Products)	Vendor of products for instructing the visually impaired. (available only through print catalog)	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
L103	American Thermoform	Hardware and consumable products sold for the production of tactual graphics.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Technology
L104	Assessment Kit: Kit of Informal Tools for Academic Students with Visual Impairments	This kit brings together informal checklists, suggestions for format; assessment materials that you may want to buy, informal reading inventories, and assessments of compensatory skill areas.	D. Sewell, Ed.		Assessment
L105	Basic Skills for Community Living: A Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities	Designed for students with additional disabilities who need routines for instructional gain.	N/A		Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners
L106	Braille Transcribers' Kit: Math	Use this kit for the creation of elementary math graphics.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Math
L107	Chang Tactual Diagram Kit	This kit uses a black felt board with bright yellow plastic pieces for the creation of O&M related diagrams and graphs. (available only through print catalog)	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, O&M
L108	Exceptional Teaching Aids	Catalog of products for teaching visually impaired students.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
L109	Experience Stories for Functionally Blind Pre-readers	This article provides suggestions for making experience stories and the beginnings of using tactiles for meaning.	Millie Smith		Pre-reading, Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners
L1010	Geometry Tactile Graphics Kit	Kit for the creation of graphics associated with the instruction of geometry.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Math
L1011	Good Tactile Graphic: A Two-Tape Video Presentation and Booklet	This presentation helps beginners and advanced tactile graphics makers to increase their skills.	N/A		Instructional Strategies
L1013	Howe Press Catalog	Supplier of mathematical tools for visual impairments.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Math
L1014	Mathematics by G. Kapperman, T. Heinze & J. Sticken in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youth with Visual Impairments	This chapter contains specific information regarding the creation of tactile graphics for the instruction of mathematics skills.	A. Koenig and K. Holbrook, Eds.		Math
L1015	O&M Tactile Graphics	This kit helps O&M instructors teach basic concepts such as compass directions, reading a clock and traveling inside and outside.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, O&M
L1016	Object Books	This document defines the object book and provides examples of how and when to have a student create one.	M. Smith, S. Shaffer, & D. Sewell		Pre-reading, Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners
L1017	Orientation Aids in Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, Second Edition	This chapter explaining the use of tactiles in Orientation and Mobility situations.	R. Welsh, B. Blasch, & W. Weiner, Eds.		O&M
L1018	Resources for Preparing Quality Tactile Graphics	List of resources who provide support for making tactile graphic materials.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, O&M, Resources
L1019	Social Studies and Science by D. Ross and M. Robinson in Foundations of Education, Second Edition, Volume II: Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youth with Visual Impairments	This chapter contains specific information regarding the creation of tactile graphics for the instruction of science and social studies.	A. Koenig and K. Holbrook, Eds.		Social Studies, Science
L1020	Swail Dot Inverter	This kit is for the simple construction of diagrams, graphs, maps by embossing a series of single dots. (available only through print catalog)	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Math
L1021	Tactile Graphics, An Overview and Resource Guide	This online resource guide provides information about how to use and prepare tactile graphics and where to find materials.	N/A		Instructional Strategies, Resources
L1022	Tactile Graphics	This is a comprehensive sourcebook for translating visual information into a three-dimensional form that blind and visually impaired persons can understand.	P. K. Edman		Instructional Aids and Materials, Instructional Strategies, Resources
L1023	Tactile Graphics Kit	Extensive kit for making maps, graphs, diagrams, etc. Contains braille slate and stylus, aluminum foil and guidebook.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
L1024	Tactile Graphics Starter Kit	This kit is for the beginning tactile graphics maker. It includes a slate and stylus and manual.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
L1025	Tactile Maps: New Materials and Improved Designs	This article evaluates the relative strengths of different ways to make tactile maps, including new photopolymers (plastics that harden with exposure to light) and computer-assisted design (CAD). Photopolymers yield crisp and precise images and produce excellent masters for vacuum forming maps. CAD allows for quick design and proofreading and the easy modification of images and text. High-quality tactile maps can be easily produced and refined by almost anyone using this technology. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, (91)2, pp. 61-65. (January/February 1997)	B. Horsfall		Instructional Strategies
L1026	Tactile Math Graphics	Resource list of on-line articles for preparing and using tactile graphics with mathematics. Some general information about tactile graphics is included.	N/A		Math
L1027	Tactile Symbols, Directory to Tactile Symbols List	The directory listing of the tactile symbol system used at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired's FA/BC Department.	Functional Academics and Basic Skills Dept., TSBVI		Tactile Symbols for Functional Learners
L1028	Tactile Vision Inc.	Producer of raised print products, tactile graphics and braille.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials
L1029	Tangible Graphs	Kit for the instruction of tactile graphics reading. This product includes an assessment of a student's ability to read a tactile graph.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Instructional Strategies
L1030	TAPS	This curriculum is for the instruction of 3 to 21 year olds age appropriate skills in the home, school and community.	N/A		O&M
L1031	Teaching Visually Impaired Children to Make Distance Judgments from a Tactile Map	Two experiments investigated the ability of 10 children with congenital blindness, 16 with residual vision, and 33 sighted children to estimate distances from a tactile map. Results found the children with visual impairments performed less well than sighted children; however, after training in how to calculate distances they improved. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, (91)3, pp. 163-174. (March/April 1997)	S. Ungar, M. Blades & C. Spencer		Instructional Strategies
L1032	View Plus Technologies	Producer of tactual graphics maker and braille embosser.	N/A		Instructional Aids and Materials, Technology
L1033	Braille Institute	A non-profit organization providing services to those with visual impairments including the sale of braille books, dual media books, etc.			Braille/print books

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Assessment

Auditory Skills

Beginning Reading (Braille)

Braille Dictionaries/Reference Guides

Braille Literacy for the Sighted

Braille/Print Books

Braille Publishers

Curricula

Dual Media

EBooks

Emergent Literacy Skills

Family Resources

Functional Braille

Games

Instructional Aids/Materials

Instructional Strategies

Large Print Books

Learning Media Assessment

Libraries (Braille, CD-Rom, and/or Cassette)

Listserv for Braille

Resources

Signature Writing

Slate and Stylus

Student Supplies (for Braille and Large Print)

Tactual Sensitivity

Tactile Graphics

Assessment

Instructional Aids/Materials

Instructional Strategies

Math

Orientation & Mobility

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Resources

Science

Social Studies

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