tactual
- adjective
- /ˈtæktʃuəl/
- Specialized
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táctil
- Learning disabilities in the student with visual impairments may result from specific visual processing difficulties, auditory processing problems, or physical problems such as difficulties with tactual abilities.
- tactual development
- Tactual matrices
- Tactual progressive
Examples
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Media needs are considered in three areas: visual, tactual, and auditory (Koenig & Holbrook, 1993).
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During social studies, I brailled and prepared materials, tactual maps, and diagrams.
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Some interventions can help blind children organize their tactual development as well as the space around them.
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They often experience problems in this area because a lack of interaction with objects gives them fragmented information about the objects and frequently affects the critical components of spatial organization, motor exploration, tactual development, and spatial representation.
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Tables 1, 2, and 3—referred to in the following hypothetical case study—illustrate information access surveys for visual, tactual, and auditory media.
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Blind children often rely on tactual feedback to explore their environment and gain independence.
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Using tactual materials can greatly enhance learning for students with visual impairments.
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The tactual sensations from different textures help to develop a deeper understanding of objects.
Synonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
To check a person's body by touch to find size, shape, firmness, or location of parts
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tactual comes from the Latin root tact-, from tangere 'to touch', the same idea you see in the word tactile and the English word 'touch', so tactual simply means 'relating to the sense of touch'.