Accession Number: 2019.9.15a-f
Subtitle: [Print Teachers Kit]
Summary/Description: Level C is the third level in a sequential program "designed to teach language skills to primary grade students who will use braille as their primary writing medium." Hilda Caton, project director; Eleanor Pester, assistant project director; Eddy Jo Bradley, senior editor; Eric P. Hamp, linguistics editor. "Produced pursuant to Grant No. G008430056 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Special Education Programs" --title page verso of pupil's text. Kit includes a pupil's text embossed in interpoint braille, worksheets and a posttest single-side embossed in braille, and teacher's editions in standard print. APH catalog number 6-78380-00. Pupil's text and teacher's edition have copyright 1996 on verso of title page. Teacher's edition of test, copyright 1995. Kit items: a-b) Communicating (pupil's text in 2 volumes) c) Teacher's Edition to pupil's text and worksheets (216 pages) d) Worksheets (unbound sheets; museum received sheets 1-75, and 81-156; sheets 76-80 were not in envelope) e) Test (8 unbound sheets) f) Teacher's Edition to test (10 pages) Pupil's text and teacher's editions have paper covers, ivory-color with blue print labeling, and are twin-loop (white metal) bound. Worksheets and posttest sheets are packaged separately in two white envelopes with blue print labeling on front. A clear braille label is also on the posttest envelope. Kit items could also be purchased separately, and braille versions of the teacher's editions were also available.
Author: Caton, Hilda
Collection: APH Collection
History/Provenance: Level C of the Patterns: Primary Braille Spelling and English Program was released as a new product of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1996, and was discontinued in 2013. It was designed to correspond to the Second Reader Level of Patterns: The Primary Braille Reading Program. This kit was transferred in 2019 to the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) from the APH Research Department, where it had been stored with project materials of Eleanor Pester.
Credit Line: APH Transfer, 2019.9
Publisher: American Printing House for the Blind
Publisher Place: Louisville, KY
Publish Date: [1996]
Subjects: Braille Language arts Printing and writing systems Spelling
Physical Description: 1 kit containing: 2 volumes of braille: tactile graphics ; 11 x 12 inches + 2 teacher's editions (print) : ill. ; 11 x 11 inches + 1 envelope (14 x 12.5 inches) of worksheets in braille ; 11 x 11.5 inches + 1 envelope (12.5 x 12.5 inches) of test sheets in braille ; 11 x 11.5 inches
