[blindkid] parents need to learn braille too

Bonnie Lucas lucas.bonnie at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 12:34:01 UTC 2009


Wow, Debby, Aubrie has been getting different grades than she thinks she 
should in math. I think we are going to innerline her work ourselves to see 
if there is a difference.
Bonnie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debby B" <bwbddl at yahoo.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:35 PM
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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> 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!
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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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