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Learning to read again

Both the authors work with the team for the visually impaired in North and West Belfast

Liz McCreery

North and West Belfast

The report describes a projèct in which six visually impaired people who had given up any expectation of reading for pleasure underwent a programme of training to re-learn reading skills. The report shows how, after twelve weeks, the participants were able to read commercial large print either with no optical aid or with a lower level of magnification than would usually be prescribed.

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