Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

Practice Report: A Case for Increased Training in the Nemeth Code of Braille Mathematics for Teachers of Students Who Are Visually Impaired


Since Practice Reports do not have abstracts, we have provided an extract of the beginning of the full text.

Because the workplace requires increasingly advanced computational and technological skills, people who do not possess those skills have restricted earnings potential. Without the ability to read and write the symbols that represent mathematical concepts, the field of mathematics is closed to persons who are visually impaired (that is, are blind or have low vision). As Stevens and Edwards (1994, p. 10) noted:


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