Session 7: Helpful Resources

Reference Sources

This is problably the most comprehensive collection of information available today on how to prepare tactile graphics for the blind and visually impaired as well for sources of information, materials and equipment.

• Price $87.00 plus shipping & handling.
• Available through American Foundation for the Blind, AFB Press, 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300, New York, NY 10001. (212) 502-7647, (800) 232-3044, FAX: (212) 502-7774.

NBA Tactile Graphics publications: Available through National Braille Association, Inc., 3 Townline Circle Rochester, NY 14623-2513, 716-427-8260/FAX 716-427-0263

• Guidelines for Mathematical Diagrams, 1983, including Number Lines Addendum (1990), published by Braille Authority of North America.
  • This is an indispensible guide. While focusing on mathematical diagrams, the principles, tools, techniques and procedures discussed in these materials apply to preparation of tactile graphics in general. It provides both print and braille examples.
  • Print price within the United States, $11.00; Canada and Mexico, $15.50; all others (surface), $18.00. Addendum only, $1.25.
  • Braille price to individuals, $28.20; all others, $78.60

• Have Tracing Wheel, Will Travel! Paper-tooling Techniques, 1993, Edited and augmented, 1995
  • Provides excellent brailon examples of effects produced by various paper-tooling tools, only a few of which are Grifhold #10 or #12 wheel, Howe Press tracing wheel, 1/4" screwdriver/hammer, Howe Press jumbo tracing wheel, and crosshatching with tracing wheel.
  • Print price to members, $5.20; nonmembers, $10.40

• Tactile Graphics in Textbook Format Braille Code: Bar, Circle, Line Graphs 1992
  • In addition to providing brailon examples of picture graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, line or cartesian graphs and maps along with the tools used and guidelines that were applied, it provides brailon examples of everything from Aleen's Original "TACKY" glue in Monoject® SYRINGE to HandiWipes®.
  • Print price to members, $5.20; nonmembers, $10.40

Sources of Materials and Equipment

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND, INC. 1839 Frankfort Avenue Mailing Address: P.O. Box 6085 Louisville, Kentucky 40206-0085 Telephone: 800-223-1839 Fax: 502-899-2274 E-mail: info@aph.org Website: http://www.aph.org

AMERICAN THERMOFORM CORPORATION 2311 Travers Avenue City of Commerce, CA 90040 Telephone: 213-887-8390

HOWE PRESS, Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon Street, Watertown, MA 02172-2790 Telephone: 617-924-3490 Fax: 617-926-2027

J.P. TRADING, 300 Industrial Way, Brisbane, CA 94005, Telephone: 415-468-0775

REPRO-TRONICS INC., 75 Carver Ave., Westwood, NJ 07675