Improving Braille Reading

□ Increasing accuracy and speed in recognition of each member of the braille code produced significant improvement in the braille reading of high school students. These results were supportive of previous research⁸ which showed that increasing the rate of identification of the 55 single-cell characters significantly increased the rate and accuracy of the total reading process of students in the elementary grades. As in the Henderson study, the present investigation showed statistically significant improvement for the experimental group on both rate and accuracy on the braille code recognition measures. The improvement on the code recognition test was anticipated because 15 days of various drill exercises on the code symbols were provided. The effect of this gain on oral reading was not statistically significant, although there was an absolute gain in both rate and accuracy in favor of the experimental group. Differential gain was noted for each of the levels, with the high reading level of the experimental group making a statistically significant gain in rate of oral reading.