How Blind Readers Perceive and Gather Information Written in Braille

Rueda, Cecilia Simón; Martínez, Juan Antonio Huertas

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“…Adult readers, whether they read print or braille, show similar patterns of detecting errors and basic decoding of text (Daneman, 1988), perhaps because for adult readers, reading in braille is more similar to reading print than it is different (Simon & Huertas, 1998). However, early braille readers have not yet acquired the tactile proficiency in the act of reading that allows them to process groups of letters or whole words as beginning print readers can.…”

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Acquisition of Literacy Skills by Young Children who are Blind: Results from the ABC Braille Study

Emerson

Holbrook

D’Andrea

2009

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

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The Alphabetic Braille and Contracted Braille Study examined the reading and writing skills of young braille-reading students. Students who were introduced to more contractions earlier in instruction performed better on reading measures, such as vocabulary, decoding, and comprehension, but all students did well in spelling. Thus, the authors conclude that literacy instruction should focus primarily on basic reading skills.

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Acquisition of Literacy Skills by Young Children who are Blind: Results from the ABC Braille Study

Emerson

Holbrook

D’Andrea

2009

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

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“…The second subscale estimates the ability to decode 53 meaningful words (e.g., ρύζι = rice; Padeliadu & Antoniou, 2008). In comparison with the ballistic saccadic movements activated during print reading (Marcet et al, 2016), when reading braille, the fingers move across the text from left to right, character by character, thus braille readers are likely to try harder to decode fluently compared with their sighted peers (Simòn & Huertas, 1998). In the third subscale, students were asked to discriminate 20 meaningful words in a set of a mixed up meaningful and non-meaningful words (36 in total).…”

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Tracing the effectiveness of braille reading patterns in individuals with blindness: Handedness and error analysis

Papadimitriou

Argyropoulos

2019

British Journal of Visual Impairment

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Braille reading is a very demanding active tactile process. Forefingers of both hands play a predominant role in braille reading, because the pulps are extremely sensitive in tactile exploration and recognition. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the potential effects of handedness on braille reading patterns during braille text reading. Thirty-two Greek students (from Grades 3 to 12) with visual impairments, who used systematically the braille code as a reading medium, participated in this study. Handedness was assessed through a modified version of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, while their reading level was estimated via a standardized test. In turn, participants read 18 texts, which were chosen randomly from their textbooks. Results indicated that handedness affected braille readers’ selected reading patterns during text reading. A variety of reading patterns were recorded and the selected data were correlated with tactile reading strategies in terms of dominant hands and fingers. It seems that readers who selected one-hand braille reading patterns performed significantly more errors with the index of their dominant hand, whereas those who chose to read with both hands faced more difficulties toward the effective collaboration of the indices of their hands. Finally, the findings of the present study are discussed in relation to educational practice, relevant theory, and subsequent research.

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“…In the case of Braille reading, tactile fixations are in use, which cannot be compared to visual fixations, since tactile reading involves fingers, hands, and arms. Moreover, whereas ocular movements allow sighted persons to skip some of the words of the text (although there is some fixation on most of them), people who are visually impaired cannot do the same; their fingers must necessarily pass over all the characters on a line (Simon and Huertas 1998).…”

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Students With Visual Impairments: Braille Reading Rate

Radojichikj

2015

IJCRSEE

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A comparison reading performance was done between 8 students who are using Braille and 14 students who are using enlarged print to read. Reading performance was determined using reading rate (words per minute, wpm). Reading rate results showed no significant difference (p>0.05) between those using the Braille (16.62±11.61 wpm) and those using the enlarged print (27.21±24.89 wpm). This study has shown that Braille reader students read at lower reading rate compared to print reader students with visual impairment.

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How Blind Readers Perceive and Gather Information Written in Braille

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

Acquisition of Literacy Skills by Young Children who are Blind: Results from the ABC Braille Study

Acquisition of Literacy Skills by Young Children who are Blind: Results from the ABC Braille Study

Tracing the effectiveness of braille reading patterns in individuals with blindness: Handedness and error analysis

Students With Visual Impairments: Braille Reading Rate

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