SENSEable STRIPS provides over 2,200 adhesive-backed tactile strips including 17 different line and path types and a variety of bright colors! These can be used to create tactile graphics, adapt maps and diagrams, and much more. Let your imagination decide!
With more than 2,200 pre-cut adhesive strips and 17 different line and path types represented in the kit, SENSEable STRIPS saves time for TVIs, O&M instructors, families, and students. The brightly colored strips allow for quick, real time creation of maps, graphs, games, and art – giving a student who is blind or low vision the opportunity to participate in classwork or artwork at the same time as their peers. With two carrying cases and pre-packaged groups of strips, transporting this kit is easy. Grab and go create!
Four types of discriminable strips - border, shape, line path, and texture
Strips are all adhesive-backed
Strips are available in a variety of colors
Strips are versatile for a wide range of uses determined by teachers and students
Foam strips are bendable
Strips can be used in combination with other tactile materials
Line path strips in dotted, dashed, railroad, and arrow textures
Texture strips in smooth, soft, rough, and bumpy textures
Border strips with single saw-toothed, double saw-toothed, crenellated, single scalloped, and double scalloped edges
Shape strips with tactile circles, squares, stars, and triangles
Suggested uses booklet (print and braille)
Two storage boxes
General Comments: “As an itinerant, my time is limited and tactile graphics can eat up a lot of it. It can take me three to four hours to adapt a map or diagram that my students might use for 15 minutes. The SENSEable STRIPS keep the tedium to a minimum and provides me with a good variety of textures and colors greatly cutting down on the time I spend behind my desk instead of with students. It also allows students to have a hand in adapting their own materials.”
Border Strips: “I like that these could be bent for rounded materials like shapes and numbers.”
Line Path Strips: “These seemed to be the most versatile. They were individually unique enough that my students had very little difficulty with discriminating one from the other; the colors were great for my students with low vision, and I could cut them into one segment pieces to use for maps, graphs, and labels.”
Texture Strips: “The rough and bumpy textured strips worked great for making maps for O&M and graphs for science and math.”
Shape Strips: “These were incredibly useful when cut apart into single units. I dare say almost as useful as the strips. We used them for points on both geographic maps and maps for O&M, for points on a graph, to indicate points on lines and angles, as markers on keypads and keyboards, polka dots on an egg, and as tactual representations for math problems.”
