[Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math inhigher level?

[John Gardner]

Hello again Iqbal.  Indeed you do have few resources.  But maybe this group
can help you make best use of resources that you do have.  You mentioned a
low quality braille embosser.  Could you tell us whether you have access to
this embosser, whether it works at all, what brand and model it is, and
whether you can get adequate supplies of paper for it.  You also mentioned
having braille printed by an NGO.  Perhaps they could print braille for you
if you gave it to them as an electronic file?  If you can have braille
printed in Bangladesh, it would make it much easier for us to help you.

In a later message you asked for braille geometry book donations.  Do your
students read English well enough to understand English math books?  Can
they read English contracted braille?

John Gardner


-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Iqbal Hosen
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 10:46 PM
To: john.gardner at orst.edu; Blind Math list for those interested in
mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math inhigher
level?

hi,
we have no resources so to say. we have not enough braille text books. let 
alone computers. some NGO's sometimes supply with books, or some braille low

quality equipments and those are our resources for our students. some old, 
broken or low quality tailor frames, abacuses are the only resources for 
math.
we have sixty-four resource teachers posts. but there are only 34 resource 
teachers are existing. about half of them are sighted and rest are visually 
impaired.  sighted resource teachers are ignorant or negligible to blind and

the visually impaired resource teachers are not capable of doing math. among

the visually impaired 14 resource teachers only three are interested in math

and i have a computer with internet connection. and so i am lucky.

sorry for describing you miserable math condition in our country. i expect 
advice from anyone that can be helpful for our math  improvement.
regards. iqbal
resource teacher.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner at orst.edu>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
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Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math inhigher 
level?


> Hello Iqbal, it would also be helpful to us to know what resources are
> available to your students.  For example, do they have access to computers
> with screen readers?  If so, which operating systems and screen reader? Or
> do they rely entirely on paper braille?  What kinds of resources are
> available to you and to others who must communicate with the blind 
> students.
>
> Our best advice will be heavily dependent on resource limitations in
> Bangladesh.  Personally I feel that blind students who do not have access 
> to
> a computer are severely handicapped.  Any blind student having access to a
> computer and screen reader can do a great deal more both in reading and in
> writing materials intended to be read by sighted people.  If the student
> must depend on paper braille, then an intermediate transcriber will always
> be essential.  But if those intermediaries are available, blind students 
> can
> still learn and do math and science.  It has been done before in poor
> countries.
>
> John Gardner
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On
> Behalf Of Iqbal Hosen
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:40 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math in higher
> level?
>
> hi,
> i am from bangladesh, a country in south-east asia. a very backward 
> country
> especially for visually impaired people.
> regards.
> iqbal.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jaquiss, Robert" <RJaquiss at nfb.org>
> To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics"
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people study math in higher
> level?
>
>
>>
>> Hello Iqbal:
>>
>>     What country are you in?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> Robert Jaquiss
>> National Federation of the Blind
>> 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
>> Baltimore, Maryland 21230
>> Phone: 410-659-9314, ext. 2422
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