[blindkid] Braille Reversals Help

Anita Adkins asadkins at frontier.com
Tue Nov 18 21:25:09 UTC 2014


Hello,

I am a Braille teacher, and I use several strategies with my students. 
Context clues, or saying blank in place of a word, and then trying to guess 
what would fit in the blank by using the words or letters around it, is one 
strategy. Obviously, the more reading that is done, the better able one is 
to avoid reversals. My students have experienced 100 percent success in 
saying letters correctly by focusing on dot numbers. When we think of dot 
numbers, we think of asking "What is c?" The student then could say dots 1 
and 4, which would be correct. This is good knowledge for the process of 
writing Braille. But after writing the Braille alphabet, or even part of it, 
has been mastered, then I focus on reading by asking, for example, "What are 
dots 1, 4?" The answer is c. I would try this with your daughter since it 
sounds as if she has mastered writing, but of course, only for letters she 
commonly reverses. Also, maybe focus on one letter until she knows it, for 
example, get her feeling dots 2, 4 and saying the dot numbers followed by I 
before she begins to think of the letter e in the same way. The only way to 
do it is to train the brain by having her practice in the question format 
and by having her first say the dot numbers she feels, followed by the 
letter, followed by the contracted word the letter forms, for example, I 
feel dots 1, 5, and dots 1, 5 is e, and e is every. I believe other people 
will prefer not to use this method as it does lead to some other bad habits, 
like scrubbing, but I find it easier to teach it this way and then to fix 
the scrubbing problem afterword since it is so successful for my students. 
Hope this helps. Anita

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sariah Mattinson via blindkid
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 4:02 PM
To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindkid] Braille Reversals Help

My daughter is in first grade and has started to read braille. Lately
she's been having a hard time with her braille reversals (e with i, i
with e, w with r, n with 'ed', d with f etc.). Her teacher has been
noticing it's getting worse and it's effecting her test scores. Her
teachers and I have tried a few different things but it hasn't
improved. If she reads a letter d and says it's an f and then I tell
her no she then knows it's the letter d. She's smart and knows which
dots each letter is. If you ask her what dots a letter e is she gets
it right every time and same with the other reversals. It's only when
she's reading it that she seems to have difficult distinguishing.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful! Thank you!

Sariah Mattinson

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