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Language Arts, 1982
Provides teachers with an understanding of how sighted children develop concepts about print and how blind children develop concepts about braille. Prereading activities designed to extend young children's concepts about print are adapted for blind children. (HTH)
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Childhood Attitudes, Concept Formation

Wheeler, Linda C.; And Others – RE:view, 1997
Reviews the development of spatial organization in children with blindness. Discusses the importance of motor exploration, tactual development, and spatial representation as critical factors in developing spatial and cognitive organizations of their surroundings. Suggests seven specific activities to improve spatial organization in blind children.…
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation

Miletic, G.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1988
An educational program was designed to introduce spatial concepts to 30 congenitally/early-blinded children, aged 8-14, using a modified Optacon of Telesensory Systems, Incorporated. Using the vibrotactile stimulation device, the children learned to identify various objects correctly and to describe their relative spatial arrangements. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Concept Formation, Congenital Impairments

Adams, B. Barbara; Ollila, Lloyd O. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1979
The Canadian Readiness Test Learning Rate subtest and the Auditory Reception and Spatial Relations Concepts subtests on the Experimental Reading Readiness Test show high reliability in measuring the reading readiness of beginning first graders. The Experimental Test has a high coefficient of reliability as a total test. (SB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
Goodrich, Judy A.; Kinney, Patricia G. – 1985
Intended to assist teachers as they assess, plan for, and teach deaf blind students, this manual describes a process for adapting curricula for students who function within the 0-24 month developmental period, also known as the sensorimotor period. The manual's first section provides an overview of project activities including the literature…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Deaf Blind