[blindkid] Girl Scout Book in Braille?

[DrV]

Hi Amber,
I know you have gotten some good suggestions.
My kids do quite a few "extracurricular activities" - youth organizations, Lithuanian Saturday school, church youth choir, religious ed, etc.
Have you checked bookshare.org? If they don't have the specific book you are looking for, you can specifically request it. We make requests from time for various things, including our school district's mandatory summer reading list books, and texts for my older son's confirmation class next year.
I have found the staff at Bookshare to be very receptive and responsive - they have truly been awesome. Requests generally take a few weeks or so to be processed. The range can be anywhere from a day or 2 to a few months.
Your daughter can then read them on her electronic braille notetaker.
Exact text - or something on the topic for lots of things - can be found on some Webpages or as PDF files, which can be copied & saved as WORD files & read off an electronic braille notetaker.
You will likely have to modify drawings & diagrams on your own.
I am a firm believer that extracurricular activities are important & totally do-able, but for them to be the best experiences, they often do require extra work (sometimes a lot) & coordination on the part of parents & the folks running the programs - it is usually a very much learn as you go process.
I can't imagine trying to function without Adobe Acrobat Pro & Duxbury.
Eric V

-----Original Message-----
>From: Amber Hall <ahall238 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2011 8:38 AM
>To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [blindkid] Girl Scout Book in Braille?
>
>Hello,
>I have been trying to get some girl scout material in Braille for my soon to be 
>10 year old daughter. I have talked with the troop leaders and they do not know 
>where to get this. I told them there has got to be a blind child who has been a 
> girlscout who is blind in the NFB. I told her I will try to find a resource to 
>get materials in braille for them. Can anyone help me with this? The troop 
>leaders have a book they teach out of. The kids really don't have a book they 
>look at, they listen. But there are times when there are things that can be 
>presented tactally and my daughter just sits there with no input.( Like 
>yesterday, they talked about seeds and the different stages of the seed as it is 
>growing and what it looks like. It would have been nice to have a tactile 
>graphic showing the stages of the seed as it grew.) I think they have a hard 
>time telling me in advance what they will be doing the next week. They thought 
>it would be easier to get the book brailled with tactile graphics, and use them 
>as needed. Any info that could be given would be greatly appreciated!
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