[blindkid] Downloading braille books?

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Mary,
With an embossed braille copy of a book, your child can also practice those
2 handed braille reading skills he will need to read braille quickly--he
won't be there yet, so don't worry about that now..he will get there. Hold
down your control key and Click on this link to take you to more information
on how to get braille books
Free Braille Books-Where to go to get
Books<http://www.yourtechvision.com/content/free-braille-books-where-go-get-books>Denise
Robinson

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Jaquiss, Robert <RJaquiss at nfb.org> wrote:

> Hello Mary:
>
>     In my opinion, there are no preschool friendly Braille displays.
> Braille displays by their nature have lots of moving parts. Care must be
> taken to read Braille displays with clean dry hands.
> If you download a braille book, the safest thing to do with it is to emboss
> it. Tis is done with an embosser.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
> Robert Jaquiss
> National Federation of the Blind
> 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
> Baltimore, Maryland 21230
> Phone: 410-659-9314, ext. 2422
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Phouka
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:45 PM
> To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blindkid] Downloading braille books?
>
> I know there's fabulous technology out there . . . but we haven't really
> started with technology at all yet (Eddie's in the hard copy world, still).
> What do you use to read books that you download?  Is there a device you'd
> recommend for early readers?  Being a toddler, Eddie's still pretty hard on
> stuff, so anything delicate wouldn't be a good idea for him.
>
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-- 
Denise

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
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Specialist in blind technology/teaching/training
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