Enhancing Emergent Literacy Skills in Inclusive Preschools for Young Children with Visual Impairments -- This article, by Janice Neibaur Day, Andrea P. McDonnell, and Lora Tuesday Heathfield, appears courtesy of the Division for Early Childhood, a division of the Council for Exceptional Children. It was originally published in Young Exceptional Children, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 21-28.

"Dots for Families" -- L. Penny Rosenblum and Susan Greer talk about the Dots for Families class that was the basis for this web site.

Creating and Using Tactile Experience Books for Young Children with Visual Impairments This is an article from TEACHING Exceptional Children, the journal of the Council for Exceptional Children. Authors Sandra Lewis and Joan Tolla discuss the role that visual impairment plays in development of reading skills and ways that families and other people who work with children with visual impairments can help them learn to read.

Reading Comes Naturally: A Mother and her Blind Child's Experiences -- This is an article by  Diane Miller who shares her experiences providing literacy opportunities for her young daughter Jamaica.

Print-Braille Books for Young Children -- Sheila Amato and Ellen Trief discuss books that provide tactile representations of pictures and a braille transcription of the story.

See/Hear -- A Quarterly Newsletter For Families And Professionals On Visual Impairments And Deafblindness. A collaborative effort of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Division for Blind Services.