[blindkid] Ipad only

Bill Dengler (OS X on REtina macBook Pro) codeofdusk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 16:34:51 UTC 2014


Is speech synthesis an option for your daughter with VO?
You could get a bluetooth keyboard and use that with the unit.
What about a mac?
OS X is better at multitasking than iOS will ever be.
Bill
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Penny Duffy via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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