Setting the Stage for Tactile Understanding - American Printing ...

• Raised-line illustrations require systematic searching skills by which a childscans the picture left to right, or top to bottom, always maintaining a referencepoint or a “return location” so that a picture is not endlessly retraced.• Raised-line illustrations require the child to follow simple contours or straightlineboundaries or paths.For each of the 12 objects included in Setting the Stagefor Tactile Understanding, a raised-line counterpart isprovided. Once the child is successful in pairing realobjects with thermoformed objects in the CENTERSTAGE activities, the following activities can beused to finalize the gradual transition to abstract,two-dimensional tactile pictures. To reduce complexity,one-to-one correspondence in size between the realobject and raised-line illustrations is maintained.56 Finale