Blind pupils are sometimes expected to make sense of tactiles without the period of pre-picture- reading activity, which is vital to understanding but whose importance we tend to overlook in the fully sighted child because much of it occurs so early This article will discuss ways of introducing very young blind children to tactile pictures, maps and diagrams, and then reinforcing and developing their experiences
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