What is the main contribution of TACK-TILES® when used with youngsters?
A. Communication. Normally, communication channels from the child to the teacher are quite constrained as opposed to the teacher to child communications. TACK-TILES® are VERY prone to altering this balance. TACK-TILES® have in their history some rather phenomenal events involving children without speech and autistic-like children interacting (through the medium of TACK-TILES® ) in ways the teachers had never before experienced. Q. What is the significance of the colors? Is there a pattern. A. The colors are to appeal to the sighted especially family members, classmates, and classroom teachers. Braille is unknown to these. The unknown is feared unless it is kept at a distance. The colors make Braille more approachable, less feared in general, therefore the student and his/ her Braille are more welcome. There is no pattern. All the vowels are red. Many reversals and possible confusions are cast in the same color, (“d” and dropped “d” are yellow, for instance). Many teachers u
