Hand Movement Training in Braille Reading

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Twenty-one children ages 6 though 13 were taught to use their hands independently when reading braille to determine how this pattern of hand movements affected reading variables, excluding character recognition. Although all the children learned this pattern of hand movements during the 20 days scheduled for training, only nine children exhibited a dramatic decrease in inefficient tracking movements such as pauses and scrubbing motions. Because these children were younger and more intelligent than the others, read braille more slowly, and had received less training in braille at school, the results strongly suggested that skill in tracking and use of an efficient hand movement pattern is closely tied to perceptual ability. Thus when teaching children to read braille, the motor aspects of the task should be combined with the perceptual aspects from the beginning.

This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit: