[blindkid] braille reversals
Penny Duffy
pennyduffy at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 03:07:56 UTC 2012
Thank you David. I want to make sure i am
doing everything i reasonably am.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Richard Holloway <rholloway at gopbc.org>wrote:
> Sounds like you're doing great. The reversals are pretty common as far as
> I understand it. Kendra certainly did a fair amount of reversing at first.
> I've been trying to work on Braille myself and find I'm doing it too.
> Context and practice are most likely the cure. Of corse, it happens with
> sighted kids too. Our kindergartener (typically sighted) still occasionally
> mixes up print B's and D's for example.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 20, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Penny Duffy <pennyduffy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Abby is advancing quickly in reading. She is picking up new contractions
> > all the time. One of the biggest issues right now are her reversals.
> The
> > letter and contraction reversal. She has slowly gotten better with time
> > but she still struggles with it. It was first I adn E she would get
> > confused with now its mostly contractions. She seems to correct them
> with
> > more practice. She also figures it out in context while she is reading.
> I
> > tried searching online for information on it. Does anyone know of any
> good
> > links? Or have any advice. She is doing great and with practice she is
> > over coming these issues. I just want to make sure I am doing the right
> > thing.
> >
> > For information Abby (8 years old and second grade) was introduced
> braille
> > 14 months ago She is now reading pretty good and the team is working hard
> > to get her up to reading level.
> >
> > --
> > --Penny
> > ----------
> > A lucky mother to two amazing children - visionfora.blogspot.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > blindkid mailing list
> > blindkid at nfbnet.org
> > http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindkid_nfbnet.org
> > To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blindkid:
> >
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindkid_nfbnet.org/rholloway%40gopbc.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> blindkid mailing list
> blindkid at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindkid_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blindkid:
>
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindkid_nfbnet.org/pennyduffy%40gmail.com
>
--
--Penny
----------
A lucky mother to two amazing children - visionfora.blogspot.com
More information about the BlindKid
mailing list