First Steps to Teaching Braille
Presented on Thursday & Friday, 30 September and 1 October 2010
Achieving Success
Elaine Brackenridge
Depute Headteacher, Royal Blind School
The young Braille user in the mainstream setting
- Nursery Story Sacks, Books, objects
- Awareness Raising with staff
- Respecting their expertise and getting them 'on board'
- Ready to Read (RNIB)
- Tracking sheets (play)
- Perkins Brailler
- Range of coloured Braille paper labels
It is our job to bring text to life for the young blind child. Daunting but exciting!
Beginning reading and writing
- Balance of classroom experience and one to one support outwith the classroom
- Ownership issues
- Consultation/Liaison/Planning
- Assistants
- Preparation of materials
- Ensuring systems are in place
- Pairing children
- Tactile Diagrams
- The Playground (if we have time)
Resources
- Sewell paper,
- German film,
- Dictionary,
- Texts,
- SRA,
- Storage,
- Desk,
- Blackboard Work,
- Homework,
- Topic Work,
- Tactile Diagrams