Braille

M^cCall, S., & M^cLinden, M. (2001). Literacy and children who are blind and who have additional disabilities—the challenges for teachers and researchers. International Journal of Disability, Development & Education, 48(4), 355-375.

M^cCall and M^cLinden address the challenges to learning Braille for students with physical and intellectual disabilities and note that such children have often been excluded from research into Braille instruction.

Wetzel, R., & Knowlton, M. (2000). A comparison of print and Braille reading rates on three reading tasks. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 94(3), 146.

This quantitative research study compared the reading rates of adult print and Braille readers during oral reading, silent reading, and studying. Braille reading rates were significantly slower than print reading rates for all three tasks, but the range of reading rates for the two groups were relatively close.

Wittenstein, S. H., & Pardee, M. L. (1996). Teachers' voices: Comments on Braille and literacy from the field. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 90(3), 201.

This article presents results from a survey about Braille literacy sent to a nationwide sample of teachers of students who are blind or visually impaired. Responses indicate that the majority of sampled teachers view Braille as an important learning medium and strongly support Braille instruction. At the same time, these teachers believe that technology has an important role and that the decision between print and Braille instruction should be made on an individual student basis.