[blindkid] braille caravan

Fri Apr 15 01:14:45 UTC 2011

I think Braille Caravan would be a good idea.  The pegs are rounded on the 
side you read.  You can just use one or you can use many for words and such. 
They can velcro together to make words.  Just another tool in your tool box. 
I'd say it's worth it.  My kids aren't showing much Braille readiness but I 
do own a set for if the day does come or I encounter a little blind child 
whose mother would like me to tutor.
Barbara

Through the sunny fields of yesterday
Echo voices of children now grown,
Their golden peals of laughter
Ring upon the ivied stone.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Marie
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 5:43 PM
To: Blindkid email
Subject: Re: [blindkid] braille caravan

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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--Penny
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