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National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, 2021
The AEM Navigator facilitates the process of decision-making around accessible formats of educational materials for individual students. It assists teams in making informed, accurate, and multi-step decisions related to determining a student's need for accessible formats, selecting the format(s) needed, acquiring materials, and determining the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Instructional Materials, Student Needs, Worksheets
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Herzberg, Tina S.; Stough, Laura M. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
This study analyzed the quality of brailled instructional materials transcribed by 40 public school personnel. The authors calculated the correlation of the certification status of the personnel and the average amount of time spent transcribing per week with the total number of transcription errors. The findings suggest that students who read…
Descriptors: Braille, Teacher Developed Materials, Public Schools, School Personnel
Caton, Hilda; Pester, Eleanor – 1979
A 3 year project to develop a beginning braille reading series was undertaken, beginning with research reviews on concept development, tactual perception, braille reading, and general reading. Analysis of vocabulary lists and specifications followed, culminating in development of the readiness, preprimer, and primer readers with accompanying…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Braille, Material Development, Reading Materials
Hampshire, Barry E.; Whiston, T. G. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1976
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Conceptual Schemes, Exceptional Child Education
Vermey, Geerat J. – Educ Visually Handicapped, 1969
Descriptors: Braille, Exceptional Child Education, Material Development, Raised Line Drawings
Tate, Barbara H.; Craig, Margaret – National Braille Association Bulletin, 1982
Designed for braille transcribers and teachers of the visually handicapped, this document consists of two short articles about textbook format braille. The first article describes some recurring print format problems and suggested solutions for dealing with them. Topics include special page numbering systems, the use of tab indexes, the preferred…
Descriptors: Braille, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Instructional Materials
Wiedel, Joseph W. – New Outlook Blind, 1969
Reprint from "The Professional Geographer of the Association of American Geographers, v18 n3, 1966.
Descriptors: Braille, Exceptional Child Research, Instructional Materials, Large Type Materials
Craig, Margaret – National Braille Association Bulletin, 1984
Designed for braille transcribers and teachers of the visually handicapped, this document presents two articles about textbook braille. The first article presents information on the various methods available for transcribing tables--the stairstep method, the keying method, and the linear method. The second article provides further discussion of…
Descriptors: Braille, Charts, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Burns, Patricia – National Braille Association Bulletin, 1983
Designed for braille transcribers and teachers of the visually handicapped, this document consists of three short articles about literary braille. The first article discusses the changes in the official literary braille code which became effective on October 1, 1980. The second article describes problems commonly encountered by students and…
Descriptors: Braille, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Instruction, Guidelines
Brooks, Austin E. – 1982
The goal of this project was to devise new methods of producing tactile facsimiles of microscopic images for the blind and visually impaired biology students at the secondary and college level. The numerous raised-line images that were produced were assembled along with brailled and large print student instructions, audio cassette tapes describing…
Descriptors: Biology, Blindness, Braille, College Science
Ostberg, Ann-Mari; Lindqvist, Bengt – 1970
The bibliography was compiled with the intent to cover areas of special interest with regard to a research program at the Teachers College of Uppsala, Sweden dealing with problems in connection with the special information media for the blind which serve as substitutes for ink-print. Entered in the first section - an introduction to blindness -…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Bibliographies, Braille, Educational Media