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Touching the Moon
Author(s) -
McLinden Mike
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8578.1995.tb01325.x
Subject(s) - pupil , special education , psychology , mathematics education , visual impairment , partially sighted , pedagogy , visual arts , visually impaired , computer science , human–computer interaction , art , neuroscience , psychiatry
Mike McLinden, formerly a teacher at Linden Lodge School, Wimbledon, and now a lecturer in special education in the School of Education at The University of Birmingham, reviews a prototype Progressive Tactile Timetable developed to enable a pupil with a visual impairment and severe learning difficulties to progress from the use of concrete symbols (objects of reference) to an abstract tactile code (Moon).