[blindkid] blindkid Digest, Vol 106, Issue 5

Dr. Denise M Robinson deniserob at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 19:19:36 UTC 2013


Trudy is correct.
If you are looking for an actual sheet on reading speeds for each year, go
to this link:
Standards for braille reading
speed<http://www.yourtechvision.com/content/standards-braille-reading-speed>
and click on the first link in the first paragraph to open an excel sheet
of all the speeds in every grade--this is from Jerry Johns the leading
reading person in the country
*Dr Denise*

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision, LLC
Specialist in Technology/Training/Teaching for blind/low vision
423-573-6413

Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons on PC, Office
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Trudy Pickrel <tlpickrel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I think the goal for reading speed is to be in parallel with the sighted
> grade level peer.
>
> Trudy L Pickrel
> President MD Parents Blind Children
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> > Wow! That's impressive, especially the math/nemeth standards. Great
> > reference that will be bookmarked.
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> > I skimmed through and was hoping to see a specific reference to
> > reading speeds, but only found a reference to reading at an
> > "appropriate rate." It's certainly possible that my skimming missed a
> > more specific reference. I'm guessing there may have been some
> > animated discussion about how to address the issue of reading rates.
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> > The information I've seen on braille reading rates seems to be pretty
> > dismal on average and feeds into the expectation that we just
> > shouldn't expect more than 110-115 wpm in by the time of high school
> > graduation...
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> > Nonetheless, kudos to Maryland for doing this.
> > Brandon
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-- 
*Dr Denise*

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision, LLC
Specialist in Technology/Training/Teaching for blind/low vision
423-573-6413

Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons on PC, Office
products, Mac, iPad/iTools and more, all done with
keystrokes: www.yourtechvision.com

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