Area 7: Tactile graphics

• Ron Hinto: Tactile Graphics in Education (External). First published by Moray House Publications, 1996. ISBN: 0901580775. Hosted on Scottish Sensory Centre website. Web version of publication on tactile graphics. Includes chapters on illustrations in visual and tactile form, tactile diagrams in educational use, teaching approaches and design. 
• Paths to Literacy: Tactile Graphics (External). This US website has a range of resources on teaching students with VI. This page points to a range of articles on teaching tactile graphicacy skills. 
• Perkins School for the Blind: Teaching Tactile Graphics (External). US school providing a wide range of eLearning resources. The page points to free video content which includes: Spatial Relationship and Graphic Literacy, Moving from Models to Graphics, Strategies for Reading Tactile Graphics. 
• Perkins School for the Blind: Tactile Maps and Teaching Maps Skills (External).  US school providing a wide range of eLearning resources. This section includes a range of articles with suggestions on how to teach students to use tactile maps, from the most basic object books to more complex tactile graphics. 
• Perkins School for the Blind: Teaching Tactile Graphics Video (External). US school providing a wide range of eLearning resources. This section includes a range of articles with suggestions on how to teach students spatial relationships and graphic literacy and strategies to move the child from exploring models to reading 2D tactile graphics.

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