BLENNZ

Blind and Low Vision Education Network NZ

Tactile graphics student

Figure 3 - Amiria has her fingers on the wheels of the tactile graphic of a car. The matching car is above the picture on the table.
Figure 3 – Amiria matching the graphic of a car to the model of the car
Figure 2 - Amiria is using an alphabet book on 'c'. She is tracking a row of "c's". The tactile graphic is a caterpillar.
Figure 2 – Amiria using an alphabet book about “c”.
Figure 1 - Amiria reading from an emergent instructional reader, which has a piaf illustration on the left, and braille on the right side of the page
Figure 1 – Amiria reading from an emergent instructional reader

The BLENNZ Pedagogy of Tactile Graphics has been implemented with Amiria from a very young age. Our aim has been to scaffold her learning so that she is be able to interpret and understand graphics, to support her learning, as she moves through the mainstream curriculum. 

The ability to manipulate and explore meaningful models and objects, as well as use actual experiences to facilitate her understanding of concepts has resulted in positive learning outcomes.   

Amiria started school this year, and is our first learner whose RTV has been able to access the tactually illustrated instructional readers as a new entrant. Amiria is using the ‘sequence books’ that help to reduce the complexity of the graphics, that lead on to the alphabet books with graphics representing the focus letter being taught. 

We will watch her progress with interest!  

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