[blindkid] Joli's education
Carol Castellano
blindchildren at verizon.net
Sun Feb 22 18:27:54 UTC 2009
Hi Lauren,
I kind of lost track of the thread regarding your
daughter's school situation. What happened after
the teacher left? Have you guys discussed braille for Joli?
Carol
At 03:35 PM 2/11/2009, you wrote:
>I am feeling a little frustrated. I just found
>out that My daughter Joli's teacher is leaving
>the school one Friday. The school will be hiring
>somebody new who is not familiar with Joli's
>vision (corrected 20/400) and language issues.
>They haven't decided who they are hiring yet. I
>am worried however, I am going to try to use
>this as opportunity to get some additional
>services for Joli. I have some questions: Do you
>have a scribe for your child? I have found
>during homework time Joli (Age 7 & Vision:
>20/400 corrected) is often told to write a few
>paragraphs about something, or to use each of
>her spelling words in sentences showing meaning.
>Last week she was given a writing exercise where
>she had to invent her own Greek myth where
>somebody had to send somebody on a task of
>finding something. 3 things had to go wrong and
>each needed to be resolved, and at the end of
>her myth the task had to be completed. Joli is
>able to dictate such things to me, and I write
>down what she says. Then she copies what I have
>written into her homework exercise book . The
>process of getting the ideas out of her head and
>onto the paper without my taking her dictation
>would take forever because of her vision and her
>language issues. She often looses her place when
>writing and so has to go back and find it again.
>It's painstaking because by the time she has
>written one sentence it has taken so long that
>she has forgotten the rest of what she is trying
>to say. The physical problem with her writing is
>that she has to hold her face so close to the
>page that it actually gets in the way of her
>hand. Anytime she needs to look away from her
>paper and glance at something on her worksheet
>that she needs to refer to, she must again find
>her place on her page to finish writing. I don't
>want her to be dependent on others but at that
>same time it kills me to see her struggle with
>her nose resting on her paper trying to squeeze
>the letters on the line. I am wondering how she
>is able to do any kind of writing -- creative or
>otherwise -- in the classroom because of this.
>(Whatever is written on the big classroom board
>is also given to her either on her personal hand
>held white board or as an enlarged worksheet. I
>am more worried about the writing that has to
>come from her own head rather than note
>copying.) I am wondering if having her do her
>classwork on a laptop where she can enlarge the
>text and where it would be easier for her to
>self edit on the fly wouldn't be a good idea.
>Her teacher who is leaving has been worried
>that she may loose her cursive script. To be
>honestly I am amazed that she is able to fit her
>letters on the lines correctly at all. Right now
>the extras she receives: worksheets are
>enlarged. -- (her school doesn't use textbooks
>as all assignments are on worksheets. The
>reading books they have are individual
>children¢s paperbacks and the kids take out one
>at a time so each kid works at her own level)
>Once a week she has an hour of extra reading and
>language help. The nurse puts sunblock on her if
>they are going outside for more than 5 mins. Her
>class doesn¢t use any over head projectors
>except during whole school assembly. She is
>allowed to wear a hat and sunglasses. I have
>provided her regular glasses plus reading
>glasses, hand held magnification devices, and a
>clip board which we find helps with her writing
>because otherwise her neck gets stiff from
>having to hold her face so close to the papers.
>She sits in the front in her class for
>everything. However I recently attended a whole
>school assembly and her class was in the 3rd
>row, and she remained with her class. I am not
>sure if this is a good thing or not. In a way I
>want her to remain with her classmates but if
>she can't see that¢s not good either. As I said
>above she gets anything writen on the board put
>on her hand-held board or on her enlarged
>worksheet. She isn¢t receiving extra time on
>tests or assignments etc. Her teachers also
>complain that she is often restless and will get
>up out of her seat at times when she shouldn¢t
>and will talk out of turn. She also sometimes
>asks a teacher to repeat himself many times
>which frustrates him to no end. (She did this
>with last year¢s teacher too.) I am not sure
>what the issue is there. I don't know if she is
>doing it just because she wants to or because
>she can't see who the teacher is calling on. I
>don¢t know if she is restless because she is
>bored or hyper or if she needs a break because
>her eyes are tired. Our school doesn't have a
>TVI or IEP. It's a small private school outside
>the US. Right now I am thinking about asking for
>a classroom scribe for her at least for her
>literacy /writing portions that are more than
>just copying and/or letting her use a laptop for
>writing excursuses in class. Thoughts? Any other
>ideas of things I should ask for? I am esp
>interested if people think a scribe is a good
>idea. I was thinking maybe having one for the
>times when Joli has to write more than one or
>two paragraphs...? Thanks! Lauren --- On Wed,
>2/11/09, blindkid-request at nfbnet.org
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>From: Carol Castellano
><carol_castellano at verizon.net> Subject: Re:
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>format=flowed Oh, that would be fun! CC At 04:27
>PM 2/8/2009, you wrote: >Hey, Carrie, since you
>have nothing else to work on...<grin>What if >we
>were to have the kids bring their instruments
>and put on a short >performance toward the end
>of convention? They pulled it together >in 3
>days for 4-County honor band, why not
>convention? One more way >to showcase our kids'
>talents, and to emphasize the need for
>music >Braille. Do I see a middle/high school
>event? > >Maybe that's something we could think
>towards for next year, if not this
>one. > >
>Debby >bwbddl at yahoo.com >www.nfbflorida.org/paren
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>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:42:31 -0600 From: "Peter
>Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re:
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>Content-Type:
>text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello
>Carrie and listers, Let me find that article
>about our music festival and will post it in the
>next few days. It was a wonderful event for
>those who participated. It's too bad it wasn't
>replaced with an activity such as the NFB Youth
>SLAM or something similar. We're talking about
>the 1970s. Though the technology wasn't there
>such an event was doable. We proved that with
>such activities like that music festival. Peter
>Donahue ----- Original Message ----- From:
>"Carol Castellano"
><carol_castellano at verizon.net> To: "NFBnet Blind
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>February 10, 2009 12:09 PM Subject: Re:
>[blindkid] music at convention Oh, that would be
>fun! CC At 04:27 PM 2/8/2009, you wrote: >Hey,
>Carrie, since you have nothing else to work
>on...<grin>What if >we were to have the kids
>bring their instruments and put on a
>short >performance toward the end of
>convention? They pulled it together >in 3 days
>for 4-County honor band, why not convention? One
>more way >to showcase our kids' talents, and to
>emphasize the need for music >Braille. Do I see
>a middle/high school event? > >Maybe that's
>something we could think towards for next year,
>if not
>this >one. > >
>Debby >bwbddl at yahoo.com >www.nfbflorida.org/paren
>ts > >Please support Braille literacy and
>programs for our youth by sponsoring me >in >the
>Motor City March for Independence! Better yet,
>join the team of >the FL Parents of Blind
>Children! >http://www.marchforindependence.org/go
>to/fpobc >http://www.marchforindependence.org/got
>o/debbyb > > > > > >_____________________________
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>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:38:37 -0800 From:
>Barbara.Mathews at sce.com Subject: Re: [blindkid]
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>Format="flowed" I agree! ----- Original Message
>----- From: Carol Castellano
>[carol_castellano at verizon.net] Sent: 02/10/2009
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><blindkid at nfbnet.org> Subject: Re: [blindkid]
>music at convention Oh, that would be fun! CC At
>04:27 PM 2/8/2009, you wrote: >Hey, Carrie,
>since you have nothing else to work
>on...<grin>What if >we were to have the kids
>bring their instruments and put on a
>short >performance toward the end of
>convention? They pulled it together >in 3 days
>for 4-County honor band, why not convention? One
>more way >to showcase our kids' talents, and to
>emphasize the need for music >Braille. Do I see
>a middle/high school event? > >Maybe that's
>something we could think towards for next year,
>if not this
>one. > >
>Debby >bwbddl at yahoo.com >www.nfbflorida.org/paren
>ts > >Please support Braille literacy and
>programs for our youth by sponsoring me in >the
>Motor City March for Independence! Better yet,
>join the team of >the FL Parents of Blind
>Children! >http://www.marchforindependence.org/go
>to/fpobc >http://www.marchforindependence.org/got
>o/debbyb > > > > > >_____________________________
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