Examining a Novel Response Modality: Teaching Sighted Individuals to Read Braille Visuall |
Posted on:2018-07-15 | Degree:M.S | Type:Thesis |
University:The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Candidate:Lillie, Madelynn A | Full Text:PDF |
GTID:2477390020457249 | Subject:Behavioral psychology |
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In order to prepare teachers to instruct children with visual impairments in braille, previous research has taught sighted adults to match braille sample stimuli to print comparisons in a matching-to-sample (MTS) format and has assessed the emergence of other braille repertoires such as transcribing and reading following this training. Although participants have learned to match-to-sample with braille, they displayed limited emergence of other braille repertoires. This lack of generative responding may have resulted from participants' over-selective attending to components of compound braille characters during instruction. The current study taught three undergraduate learners to construct braille characters given a print sample---which required attending to each individual braille symbol---and again assessed generative braille responding. All participants met mastery of 378 braille construction responses and demonstrated superior generative responding across tests of transcribing braille than shown in previous research. |
Keywords/Search Tags: | Braille, Previous research, Generative responding |
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