[blindkid] How do you get to bring Braille note home

[DrV]

We are in a small school district.
There was never even any discussion about keeping the BrailleNote or
Perkins over the summer - its a given. There is no nationwide or statewide
rule. There are almost always ways around such arbitrary local decisions.
You just need to make the proper justification to the right person.
If it's an issue, I like the idea of writing it into the IEP.
If you need to, be creative & make it the home component of the "extended
school year" - the student then needs the tools to "work on their summer
school assignments". You can choose to do selective participation in an
"extended school year." Our district has posted suggested (& some
mandatory) Summer Reading Lists - its hard to read an e-braille file
without the appropriate tool.
Best wishes,
Eric V


On 5/25/11 12:27 PM, "Richard Holloway" <rholloway at gopbc.org> wrote:

>I'm sure it is a case by case thing (or at least system by system), but
>we sign a form at the end of the year that says basically if we break it,
>we bought it... and then we take it home, just like it comes home every
>day after school in her backpack. (There is one form for the school year
>and one for the summer.) We have borrowed braillers in the past and still
>borrow the BrailleNote and various other things from printers to smaller
>items like an abacus, etc.
>
>Our daughter does virtually all of her work on a BrailleNote, and this
>saves them a LOT of work at school because that means they have no need
>to transcribe any of her schoolwork back to print-- they just have her
>print out her assignments directly from the BrailleNote. It does cause
>some issues in reviewing her work after it is graded though, as there is
>no marked up braille copy, but then again, if they mark-up braille work
>in print, that's not much better, as it still requires a print reader to
>assist.
>
>Apparently, in some cases, they want to keep the equipment there to do
>maintenance and I suspect some systems fear they would loose the
>equipment and not get repaid if someone skips town or whatever. I doubt
>there is any legal way to compel a school or system to loan you the
>equipment (apart from possibly IEP inclusion), but from a practical
>standpoint, they probably only have one student using most pieces like a
>BrailleNote, so it is either with the student or on a shelf at the
>school, and if kids don't practice all summer, they fall behind, making
>more work for the school.
>
>Now as kids get older, there is probably also an argument to be made for
>say, a BrailleNote, if they have ANY at-home work to do over the summer,
>and if you can get a need for something into an IEP for over the summer,
>then you'll be all set.
>
>
>
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