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Peer reviewedSimon, C.; Huertas, J. A. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1998
Twenty-six expert adult readers, 13 of whom were blind, were compared for how they perceived and retrieved written information. The study found that braille readers were not limited to the isolated identification of individual braille characters as previously thought, but could integrate greater quantities of written information. Implications for…
Descriptors: Adults, Blindness, Braille, Decoding (Reading)
