Blogger Jan Godown Annino explores how to select reading materials for young readers who are blind or visually impaired in her post KID LIT HEROES: What can we learn about young readers with low vision? She interviewed Charlotte Cushman at Paths to Literacy and asked the following questions on this topic:
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What specific techniques can help a child with low-vision or no vision, learn to love literature, beyond methods that inspire other young readers?
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What are the thoughts about the use of modalities such as braille readers, Talking Books and new technologies?
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Are there children’s authors through the years, or currently, whose stories seems to work best in translation for children low-vision or who are blind?
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Are the increasing number of wordless picture books ideal for the younger ones in this group?
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What motivates a publisher to make an author’s book for children accessible to the low-vision or no vision young reader? How can this accessibility to books be increased?
http://groggorg.blogspot.com/2014/08/kid-lit-heroes-what-can-we-learn-about.html