Where's My Ball? A Hands-on Book
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Just as a child learns how to read braille, they can also benefit from learning how to understand and interpret tactile illustrations.
Tactile illustrations can help a young child understand basic concepts such as the difference between ‘under’ and ‘over’. As a child grows older, they will be expected to use tactile illustrations to learn about more abstract things, such as maps or even amoebas!
In the words of Jackie Goodall, the parent of an adult blind child and a teacher at W. Ross Macdonald School, Brantford, Ontario:
‘If you give a visually impaired child a book, you give him a book; if you give him a tactile book, you open up his world.’
Because we believe that tactile literacy is an important part of a child’s development, the CNIB Library has developed a unique hands-on, pre-school tactile book, Where’s My Ball?, to support parents and children in developing this important skill.
The CNIB Library acknowledges the support of the Canadian Braille Literacy Foundation for the Tactile for Tots program.