[Blindmath] Bangladesh and can visually impairedpeoplestudymath inhigher level?

Thu Aug 4 09:55:51 UTC 2011

oh, no, i am not near dhaka.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal" <neal at duxsys.com>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Bangladesh and can visually impairedpeoplestudymath 
inhigher level?


> 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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