I find my students enjoy using the Shape Detective series by Boguslaw Marek as one of the teaching tools we regularly use together.
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Frequent opportunities to interact with a wide variety of tactile graphics prepared in different ways allowing enough time to explore and providing concrete experiences prior to exploring the graphics.
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I loved how she said we need to allow students time to create their own graphics. The students I work with love using the Tactile graphics kit to create their own graph and raised line drawings. They love them so much we created a lower cost version from things found at home, on Amazon and 3D printed pieces.
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Provide a rich environment that allows exploration, time for exploration, items to explore, and some information to give meaning to the item
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Games to explore spatial orientation and directionality.
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How to find materials and teach concepts to children with multiple disabilities?
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Space IRL or virtual with peers to learn how others approach, explore, discuss tactile literacy
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Give comparisons of items in 3D, 2D and 1D
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opportunities to explore and touch the world around them, then take those experiences and journal them together, creating experience books with tactile representations of the experience they just had
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Lots of exploring with touch, smell, auditory. Make it fun and purposeful.
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Give multiple opportunities for tactile exploration across a variety of content areas. Balance free form exploration with guided exploration to encourage different ways to learn and what questions to ask/consider.
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Using finger strengthening toys like play doh
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asking the student what are their preferences when it comes to spacing, tactile feeling, and more.
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Hands on. Opportunities to touch everything
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encourage exploration of real-world objects and model for them
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Would love for APH to offer Swell Paper on Quota for tactile graphics machines, such as the PIAF or Swell machine!
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Exposure & opportunities to explore with sufficient time to touch & move object into various orientations at the learner’s own pace while providing adult guidance & support to help build associations with language for labeling tactile sensations, movement & concepts. Also opportunities to expand on concepts in different variations, identifying similarities & differences alike.
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What supports can we provide learners to facilitate the development of effective tactile literacy skills?
Using real objects for exploration. When I worked in a school my students loved making braille art and coloring with tactile coloring pages. They also loved using Sensational Blackboards to draw tactile graphics.
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provide experiences and scaffold learning based on students’ experiences, knowledge, and present levels. Start simple and allow students time to explore. Concrete items before abstract.
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When I think of supports for helping students, I think of what will help me, as a person who is blind. I feel like if we are going to provide graphics that have multiple pictures on one page, we may want to use realia to help with conceptualization. I would also break the graphics up into their individual parts, showing them one-by-one until they can conceptualize each one before looking at a page with multiple things. If a student does not know what a pineapple feels like, we need to show them a real one before they feel it on a page.
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