Tactile Skills Matrix: Reading Maps
Featured Product
The following APH products provide practice Reading Maps, including readymade tactile maps and templates for designing tactile maps. Note: Products without a hyperlink to APH’s shopping site have been obsoleted, but original copies might still be available to some teachers for continued use with their students.
- Braille Transcriber’s Kit: Countries and Continents
- Braille Transcriber’s Kit: U.S. Maps
- Downloadable maps from Tactile Graphic Image Library (TGIL)
- Going to the Playground iOS App and Overlays
- Interactive U.S. Map with Talking Tactile Pen
- Moving Ahead Series:
- O & M Tactile Graphics
- Room with a View: Map-Reading Concepts and Skills (future APH product)
- SQUID Tactile Activities Magazine with these activities:
- “Here Kitty” (included in Issue 1)
- “Where Did Mom Park the Car?” (included in Issue 3)
- “Best Seat in the House” (included in Issue 6)
- “Map of Texas” and “Table Sitting” (included in Issue 7)
- Tactile Town: 3-D O&M Kit
- Tactile World Globe
- U.S. & Canada Tactile/Print Atlas
- U.S. Puzzle Map
- World at Your Fingers
- World Maps
Do you have other recommendations for products that provide practice READING MAPS? Share your ideas with Karen J. Poppe, Tactile Literacy Project Leader, at kpoppe@aph.org as she continues to update this Tactile Skills Matrix.
