[Blindmath] Bangladesh and can visually impaired peoplestudymath inhigher level?

Wed Aug 3 15:14:02 UTC 2011

Hello:
If you are near Dahka (sp?) you should be able to contact the Lincoln
Library connected to the American Consulate.  They had an embosser from
Enabling Technologies and were using it and I think, letting others use it
for braille production.  They also have Duxbury Braille Translator, now an
older version, but it worked and they were trained on it.  

There is also the Tongi School where they had at least one big Braillo, that
was not being used very much.

Embossing math braille is no different than embossing other braille.
It just has to be braille.

Feel free to contact me off list directly at:
neal at duxsys.com 

Sincerely,
Neal Kuniansky
Email: Neal at duxsys.com
TEL:+1 978-692-3000 
FAX: +1 978-692-7912
URL: http://www.DuxburySystems.com
Duxbury Systems, Inc. 
The name for Braille since 1975.
270 Littleton Road, #6
Westford MA, 01886 USA

-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Iqbal Hosen
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 1:29 AM
To: john.gardner at orst.edu; Blind Math list for those interested in
mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired peoplestudymath inhigher
level?

dear John,
many thanks for your quick responses.
two or three NGO's have braille Embossers in our country. but they don't 
have technician, a little problem make them useless. i don't know the model 
of the embosser they are imported from malaysia. one of the NGO's told me 
that the can not emboss math braille.
my students are efficient in contracted english braille. they will also be 
able to understand english. however, if they face any difficulty, i must 
help them to understand.
sincerely yours,
iqbal hosen
resource teacher.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner at orst.edu>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] can visually impaired people studymath inhigher 
level?

> 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'"
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
> 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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