Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(2)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 2 The Dissertation of the Year Award is presented to a DVIDB member who makes a significant contribution to the field through extensive study and research. Dr. Savaiano's dissertation, "Comparison of vocabulary instruction strategies for students who read braille" addressed whether the presence of a target word in braille during instruction facilitated vocabulary learning more efficiently than an auditory only instructional condition. The study utilized an "adapted alternating treatments single-case experimental design" with three students with visual impairments whose primarily reading medium was braille. Data was collected on definition recall and spelling was collected in each session with definition recall used to measure mastery. The results of this study are not consistent with previous findings with students who read print. Visual analyses of the data indicated that participants reached mastery in both conditions, but all three reached mastery on definition recall in fewer sessions in the auditory only condition. Spellings of words were learned in the flashcard condition only, and possible implications of this are discussed. The difference in the unit of recognition and working memory load between reading braille and reading print is discussed 13

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