Teaching braille to a student with low vision
July 30, 2016 by blennzict | 0 comments
Ethan is a 9 year old student currently in Year 4 and attends his local school. He has a significant eye condition which greatly impacts on his accessing the curriculum especially with literacy.
Ethan is able to use enlarged readers and worksheets at some points during the school day but can become visually fatigued.
Marg Crosswell talks about how Ethan’s main goal for this year has been to learn braille and so he has been practising brailling the alphabet on the Perkins brailler (figure 1). Continue Reading →