Anticipate, Empower, Explore - Reading Kit Design for Visually Impaired Children in Australia

  • Paul Morris La Trobe University

Abstract

Deriving from his recent research, Paul Morris' kit design aims to deliver reading material to visually impaired children in a more inclusive manner, at the same time as targeting the non-professional carer or parent of the child in a confidence building and supportive approach.

Author Biography

Paul Morris, La Trobe University
Pavid Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Issue
Vol. 13 No. 2 (2009)
Section
Jabberwocky
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