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Pre-Braille Assessment

This pre-braille assessment is designed to help teams to determine when students are ready to learn braille.

This assessment from TSBVI is designed to help educational teams to decide when a student is ready to learn braille.  The sections include:

Cognitive Concepts

  • Recognizes spatial relationships
  • Understands the meaning of basic words
  • Recognizes size relationships
  • Recognizes basic shapes
  • Recognizes different textures
  • Recognizes numeric relationships
  • Recognizes weight relationships
  • Recognizes movement
  • Recognizes time concepts
  • Recognizes sounds

Motor Skills

Tactile Discrimination

  • Recognizes tactile characteristics of objects
  • Recognizes and interprets tactile stimuli
  • Recognizes and interprets graphic information

Language/Listening Skills

Writing Skills

Book Skills

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Pre-braille assesment collage