Learning to Write in Braille: An Analysis of Writing Samples from Participants in the Alphabetic Braille and Contracted (ABC) Braille Study

Concepts

Cognitive ScienceCase StudiesWriting DifficultiesBraille StudyHandwritingComputer AccessibilityDisabilityEducationSpecial EducationReading DisabilitiesVisual ImpairmentContracted BrailleSocial SciencesSpecific Learning DisorderAlphabetic BrailleAmerican Sign Language

Abstract

This article reports the results of data from 114 writing samples of 39 children who read braille and who were included in the Alphabetic Braille and Contracted Braille (ABC) Study between 2002 and 2005. Writing characteristics, miscues, and composition characteristics are analyzed, and two case studies are included.

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