International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology
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Ye Wang

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• Research Article
  Multiple Literacies for Individuals who are Blind or with Visual Impairment: A Quantitative Comparison on Print, Braille, and Auditory Literacies
  Author(s): Ye Wang, Shariffa Khalid Qais Al-Said and Feifei YeYe Wang, Shariffa Khalid Qais Al-Said and Feifei Ye
  
  The use of Braille by individuals who are blind or with visual impairment (VI) is often referred to as default, although the social dynamics of this population is not always intimately entwined with Braille. This study is a quantitative comparison on Braille literacy and auditory literacy to investigate if these two forms of captured information are equivalent to each other. Fifteen college graduates between the ages of 22 and 55 participated in the study: 5 of them were blind or with VI and preferred the use of Braille to access text material; 5 of them were blind or with VI and preferred to process textual material through audition; and 5 of them were individuals without VI and preferred to access textual material through visual print. The results showed that there were no differences among the three groups in their recall of propositions from the texts based upon their preferred me.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2469-9837.1000193

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