[blindkid] parents need to learn braille too

Carrie Gilmer carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 03:14:36 UTC 2009


 Us too Debbie, I am sure it has been over a dozen times in Jordan's school
career that when he failed a test (in fact it was pretty much 100% this was
discovered the answer to a very low grade) it was because either the Braille
was different than the print or the answer key did not match up. Make sure
Braille copies of tests are kept after for this very reason!

Thanks for sharing that Debbie! 
 
Carrie Gilmer, President
National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
Home Phone: 763-784-8590
carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
www.nfb.org/nopbc
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From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Debby B
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:35 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)
Subject: Re: [blindkid] parents need to learn braille too

We have run into this often, especially in math! My knowing Braille, and
having Winona go over a paper with me when she does poorly usually results
in the proper grade. Often the aides don't know Braille very well, or they
are rushing. Often we discover the problem happened in the Brailling.
Sometimes when they adapt things they neglect to adapt the answer key.
Winona recently received an F on a test. In looking it over we discovered
the questions didn't even match the choices Winona had. We're meeting to
discuss that and show the classroom teacher next week.

 Debby 
bwbddl at yahoo.com
www.nfbflorida.org/parents

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From: Joy Orton <ortonsmom at gmail.com>
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:04:14 PM
Subject: [blindkid] parents need to learn braille too

Just a personal experience on why parents need to learn braille...

Today I was looking over my daughter's school papers and found one with
grade of 75. I was surprised, because most of her work is at the 95 to 100
level. ( yes, we are proud of her.)
The teacher had counted off for spelling.
The first circled word was Minnesota. Ahbee wrote it correctly in braille,
but the transcriptionist incorrectly left out one N when interlining
it--writing it for the teacher to read.
Another place, Ahbee had correctly capitalized the word Lake, but the
interlining did not show the capital.

Anyway, I was able to catch these because I can read braille for myself.
Ahbee deserved a 95--she did misspell "uper" instead of upper.
The teacher will give her credit for it--I'm so glad I could read it.

Joy Orton
mom of Ahbee, Grade 2
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