Show audible picture book teaches blind children NEW YORK A novel experiment in the teaching of blind children which will make use of the talking book as an auxiliary instructor has now been launched in one fourth of the schools for the young blind across the country according to an announcement by robert B irwin executive director of the american foundation for the blind inc new york city it consists in teaching young blind children through the medium of an audible picture book the initial phonographic discs which the sound studios of the foundation have now prepared consist of talking book records with alternating bands of sound and silence the sound band when it reads itself aloud projects a short lesson sometimes this lesson comes from the disc in dramatic form sometimes as a story told with sound effects sometimes as a straight narrative when each lesson ends the band of silence follows in that interval the instructors test questions on the recorded lesson are given to the young blind listeners by means of data already available the instructor can compare the answers which the blind children make to those made by sighted children on the basis of the same sets of tests |