Part 1 of the Braille for Infants handbook provides comprehensive guidelines to the special skills that a child needs to develop before learning the braille code.

Here are just a few of the games/activities we use to develop some of these pre-braille skills.

1) Tactile bingo /matching game

2) Find the odd one out- gradually making cards more difficult

- fine tuning tactile discrimination

3) Explore and describe textures – find the braille cell

4) Tactile matching /pairs

5) Tracking cards using thick string then thinner wool etc

(chocolate button waiting at the end to reward clever fingers running smoothly along the line)

7) Tracking cards and books variable length

8) Braille alphabet tracking cards

9) Find your name

10) Bingo- alphabet game