This modernized kit helps teachers create a tactile card system that is individualized or standardized for visually impaired and blind learners who have additional disabilities and/or lack a formal means of communication or literacy. The tactile symbols are created when part of an object is mounted on a hand-sized card representing core vocabulary categories (e.g. people, places, actions, objects, etc.). This kit provides some of the essential components that assist in a system’s construction and application. A new chapter in the downloadable guidebook below explores how Tactile Connections can be used to augment the development of universal core vocabulary.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD — Small parts. Not intended for children ages 5 and under without adult supervision.
This kit includes 105 cards in black, blue, gray, green, red, white, and yellow. The cards are die-cut from heated 3mm Sintra material. Each bag contains 15 cards of one color sized 2 ¼” x 3 ½”. 5 of these cards in each bag have two 1/8" holes punched 5/8" apart center to center, 2 1/16" from the bottom edge.
The black cards are rectangular in shape.
The blue cards are rectangular with a concave shape cut out of the center of one end of the card.
The gray cards are rectangular in shape with a scalloped edge on one end of the card.
The green cards are rectangular in shape with corners cut to form a point on one end
The red cards are rectangular in shape with the corners trimmed on one end.
The white cards are rectangular in shape with one rounded side.
The yellow cards are rectangular in shape with three points on one end.
