Experiments with Modified Grade 2 Braille Codes to Determine Their Effect on Reading Speed
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
- Vol. 73 (8) , 324-328
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x7907300806
Abstract
Discusses the braille code as a medium of communication and describes four experiments in which Standard English Grade 2 Braille is compared with three “reduced” codes and one “expanded” code. Although the criterion used in the experiments is “speed of reading,” other criteria that need to be taken into account are discussed, the most important being space-saving and ease of learning. The authors see these investigations as part of the preliminary work that must be undertaken if braille is to be made accessible to a larger number of readers, particularly to children and adults of average and below-average ability.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Comprehension of Rapid Speech by the BlindExceptional Children, 1962
- Readability of Braille as a function of three spacing variables.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1958