Tactile Skills Matrix: Symbolic Understanding
Featured Product
The following APH products build Symbolic Understanding by demonstrating how objects and things in the real world are sometimes represented by abstract tactile drawings or symbols. 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.
- Boehm-3 Preschool Tactile Edition Kit
- Flip-Over Concept Books: PARTS OF A WHOLE
- On the Way to Literacy Storybooks:
- Lots of Dots: Coloring the Garden
- Moving Ahead storybook: Goin’ on a Bear Hunt
- Moving Ahead storybook: Splish the Fish
- Moving Ahead storybook: The Boy and the Wolf
- Moving Ahead storybook: Turtle and Rabbit
- SAM: Symbols and Meaning
- Setting the Stage for Tactile Understanding
- SQUID Tactile Activities Magazine with these activities:
- “Break the Code: Breakfast Foods” (included in Issue 1)
- “Break the Code: Winter Clothing” (included in Issue 2)
- “Raining Cats and Dogs” (included in Issue 3)
- “Beyond Castle Walls” (included in Issue 4)
- “Caught in the Web” (included in Issue 6)
- “Circular Code” (included in Issue 7)
- STACS: Standardized Tactile Augmentative Communication Symbols Kit
- Tactile Connections: Symbols for Communication
- Tactile Town: 3-D O&M Kit
- Tactile Treasures, Tactile/Color Edition
- The Best for a Nest Interactive Storybook
Do you have other recommendations for products that build SYMBOLIC UNDERSTANDING? Share your ideas with Karen J. Poppe, Tactile Literacy Project Leader, at kpoppe@aph.org as she continues to update this Tactile Skills Matrix.
