Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone is doing well. We are looking to update our class session that focuses on strategies for teaching braille reading and writing to young children/students who are blind or visually impaired. Can I ask what resources others are using/sharing with your students to help prepare them for teaching their students to read and write braille? We talk about prebraille skills/strategies, use a few of the chapters from Instructional Strategies for Braille Literacy (Wormsley and D'Andrea), and a few chapters from Beginning with Braille: Firsthand Experiences with a Balanced Approach to Literacy (Swensen). We talk about the Mangold Developmental Program of Tactual Perception and Braille Letter Recognition and the ABC Braille Study. I would love to hear what others are using/how you are preparing your students. Thanks, Chris Chris Bischke, Ph.D. TVI, DT/V Director, Multi-University Consortium Teacher Preparation Program Sensory Impairments Professor and Program Coordinator, Visual Impairments Program The University of Utah Department of Special Education 1721 Campus Center Drive, SAEC 2280, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 801-585-3925<tel:801-585-3925> office 801-589-2449<tel:801-589-2449> cell 801-585-6476 fax [LOGO Multi Consortium]