[blindkid] idea for research topic

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Mike - Welcome to the 21st Century (grin)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" 
<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 18:51
Subject: Re: [blindkid] idea for research topic


Goodness! I'm not sure even high school kids should have BrailleNotes,
let alone elementary school kids and I'm virtually certain that
preschool is too early for the Mountbatten. (grin)

Guess there's more than one drummer in NFB! (grin)

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grace Sato" <grace at babymilagro.org>
To: <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:55 PM
Subject: [blindkid] idea for research topic


Melissa,

I would like to see research done on blind children and adaptive
technology, something that ultimately concludes that getting a
Mountbatten for preschoolers to use at home is a best practice.
Or that issuing a BrailleNote to kindergarten-aged  kids  learning to
read and write is  appropriate. Perhaps do a five-year study of the
literacy levels of kids who got technology to use at home when they were
two and those that didn't? What is the different in their reading rates
by fifth grade, for example?

Getting AT in the hands of  blind kids ASAP supports literacy
initiatives and helps a family support their child with concrete,
tangible steps. AT should be in the home by preschool when (sighted)
three and four year olds are scribbling their first letters. But most of
us live in a world where we (parents) are the lone advocates for AT for
our kids and the administrators only obsess about the cost. Then when
you ask they buy "one for home and one for school" it gets really
hilarious.

That's my suggestion. Questions? Please write me off list. I'm a
technology professional in California's Silicon Valley, mother of a
blind second grader, and this is my hot button....can you tell? :-)

Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
Author of "Letting Your Child's Wild Side Out: Raising the Wild and
Confident Blind Baby, Toddler and Preschooler"

www.babymilagro.org/dvd




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