[blindkid] braille caravan

Marie empwrn at bellsouth.net
Thu Apr 14 22:43:56 UTC 2011


Thank you all for your quick responses. I have made my own little braille tiles for Jack. I took scrabble tiles and added a braille label and then put velcro on the back to be used on a felt board. It works pretty well and only cost me the extra little bit of velcro dots I needed to buy since I had everything else. The muffin tin thing has not really appealed to him just yet. I'm trying to think of fun ways to be able to spell words with braille the way sighted children play with magnets and what not before they are able to form letters on their own. I went with the scrabble tiles because I figured I'd have plenty of different letters to spell many words and it's a good fine motor activity for Jack to pull the tiles off the board and place them back on. I guess I could have used the sticky back magnets and made them magnetic instead. 

I was just wondering if there was a premade product for less than the $300 cost of tac-tiles for "playing" with braille. 

We still don't know if Jack can distinguish one set of dots from another. I don't know if his fingertips are sensitive enough or not too overly sensitive to be bothered by the dots. His fingers were fused by bone at birth so to create his fingers the surgeon cut through the tissues and nerves. What that means for his fingertip sensitivity we cannot be sure and because one person's nerve regrowth healing differs from another, only Jack can tell us one day.

Jack does sometimes appear to have an aversion to braille and I wonder if it might be hypersensitivity in his fingertips. He is definitely showing an interest in spelling and reading these days and I am trying to encourage that.

Any tips/ideas y'all have for me I'd appreciate!
Marie (mother of Jack, born May 2005)
Check out our blog at http://www.allaccesspasstojack.blogspot.com for glimpses into our busy life with a boy who is busy growing and developing in his own way in his own time

-----Original Message-----
From: Penny Duffy <pennyduffy at gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:36:55 
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Subject: Re: [blindkid] braille caravan

Muffin Tin Trick is often my daughter loved that. Its really inexpensive and
its fun.  It was the best advice someone has ever given me before.

http://visionfora.blogspot.com/2011/01/adventures-in-braille-good-day.html

<http://visionfora.blogspot.com/2011/01/adventures-in-braille-good-day.html>
-Penny

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org>wrote:

> Much larger. Probably close to an inch high for each cell. If I can find
> where they are around here I'll measure it an repost. Nice product, but more
> for conceptual learning as opposed to actual reading as proper braille. One
> cool feature of them is that you can practice typical brailling from the
> front or working from the backside, like with a slate and stylus, flipping
> them over to read-- the "dots" push through and you can see/feel them from
> both sides.
>
> We had really good luck with the muffin tin trick even before things as
> small as the caravan blocks. Using a 6-muffin tin and some tennis balls to
> practice single letters is sort of like having a huge 3-D braille
> flashcard...
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Marie wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if the braille caravan blocks are actually the size of a
> > braille cell or larger?
> >
> >
> >
> > Marie (mother of Jack, born May 2005)
> >
> > Check out our blog at http://www.allaccesspasstojack.blogspot.com for
> > glimpses into our busy life with a boy who is busy growing and developing
> in
> > his own way in his own time
> >
> >
> >
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