[blindkid] Ipad only

Gerardo Corripio gera1027 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 16:34:41 UTC 2014


  Why if the Ipad supposed to work with the Braille Sense? She could 
maybe stay with the BrailleSense and via Bluetooth, hook it up to an Ipad?

El 12/11/2014 10:30 a.m., Penny Duffy via blindkid escribió:
> Oh and I assume the braille display would have braille input keys.  it
> would A Huge No without.
> On Nov 12, 2014 11:27 AM, "Penny Duffy"<pennyduffy at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Abby uses an IPAD and a braille display because they have 1:1 iPads
>> district wide and it works for her. There are things the does an ok job
>> with and that's braille transcribing can have a lag.  Also the braille
>> sense is always on and ready. I  am still on thr fence and Abby may need a
>> notetaker someday. It seems silly to move your daughter to an ipad only if
>> the braille sense is working so well with her. Do they have a tech eval to
>> say the IPad is a better tool? What is thier reasoning?
>> On Nov 12, 2014 10:52 AM, "Amber Hall via blindkid"<blindkid at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, it's been a while since I've been on here. But I have a question
>>> for parents of kiddos who are using iPads with braille display at school.
>>> My daughter has a braille sense. she's had it for probably four years now.
>>> She does very good on it, but the school is wanting her to go to iPad only
>>> with a braille display. I'm kind of hesitant because I know I've heard
>>> negative things on here about doing that.
>>> Any suggestions on what I can say to help my case when I present it to
>>> the school?
>>> My daughter loves her braillesense. She's hesitant to go to the iPad
>>> because a lot of times it doesn't work for think she needs it too. And she
>>> is slow with it because she doesn't have a lot of experience with it.
>>> But they still want her to transition to only ipad anyway.
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>>
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