Broaden your tactile drawing toolkit with the one-of-a-kind Tactile Shape Slate! This versatile tool captures the convenience and flexibility of a traditional slate and stylus with additional versatility to handle all your tactile projects.
The Tactile Shape Slate is a versatile tool designed for a wide range of users, including teachers, graphic artists, and blind creators of all ages. This slate allows the user to create raised point symbols and shapes in combination with a variety of media (e.g., braille paper, tactile drawing film, heavy-gauge aluminum diagramming foil, etc.) during the preparation of raised-line graphs, worksheets, and other tactile projects. With its simple, intuitive design that mimics traditional hinge-style braille slates, Tactile Shape Slate makes it easy for users to create precise and high-quality tactile graphics.
Tactually identifiable point symbols that are commonly used within tactile graphic displays (includes arrows, open circles, outline squares, raised bumps, and X-shapes)
Accommodates the tooling of graphics across all educational areas of the Core Curriculum (e.g., math, science, social studies), as well as graphics used to demonstrate concepts related to the Expanded Core Curriculum (e.g., orientation and mobility, recreational worksheets/games, labeling).
Tactile Shape Slate
Two-ended Drawing Stylus
Tactile Shape Slate and Drawing Stylus storage pouch
Shape Stencil Plate
Print Instruction Booklet
Braille Instruction Booklet
Print Parts List
Braille Parts List
Accessible PDF and BRF files available for free download under Manuals & Downloads
Here’s what our field testers had to say about Tactile Shape Slate:
“Versatility. It has quite a range of built-in shapes. In addition, combinations of shapes can be used to make other shapes and figures that come out clear and come out the same way repeatedly. I really like the fact I can make uniform right triangles and stick figures with this. This slate also provides a quick resource to make tactiles. I can use this with the line slate to make an entire tactile graphic quickly if needed, such as a teacher sends me a math or science diagram involving shapes and asks me if I could do this for the next period. No waiting for glue or puffy paint to dry.”
“This slate is easy to use. It has multiple shapes and symbols that are found in most educational materials. The symbols also coordinate with the APH symbols sticker sheets that come in many colors. This will allow multiple and combined uses for our students. The slate is very portable and I liked the yellow color–this makes it easy to locate in my materials.
“It’s portable and easy to store. The images are quick to make and useful on a variety of materials.”
