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Early Years Tactile Resources
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This video provides an overview of the introduction of tactile illustrations and early tactile graphics. • It stresses the importance of introducing books and print (braille) to children with visual impairment as early as you would for a sighted child. • There are three clear stages. • 1. Encouraging the tactile skills in identifying everyday objects • 2. Introducing these objects into book format • 3. Changing objects to textures and teaching representation • It is estimated that 80% of our learning comes through what we see, much of this learning in the early years is ‘incidental’ learning that comes through observation of the world around us. Many things a child learns are not explicitly taught but noticed and copied. Clearly for the child with visual impairment this ability is severely reduced or not available at all. • Giving meaning to everyday tasks and experiences via tactile exploration is vital if a child is to develop cognitively. Exposing a young child with VI to many different textures and objects provides the opportunity for them to build up a ‘memory bank’ of touch experiences. • Placing these tactile experiences/ objects into book format allows the development of book handling skills- which way up, turning pages, reading left to right. These protocols are taught to give meaning to the task and in readiness for more formal learning later on. • As their tactile exploration skills develop it is important to introduce context and spatial concepts, eg a toy house or car is not the same the size or feel of the real thing. • The thermoform images provide a bridge between the real object and a tactile illustration, another stage in preparing a child to read information provided in picture form. • It is always important to remember that learning to interpret tactile illustrations is not an automatic skill but requires practice and support. • For more advice and information please visit our website: • http://learninghub.royalblind.org/
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