[Blindmath] Bangladesh and canvisually impairedpeoplestudymath inhigher level?

Thu Aug 11 06:04:02 UTC 2011

dear neal,
i live in a district town called jamalpur which is about 200 kilo meters 
from dhaka.
could you please tell me which embosser can can emboss geometric drawings?
thanks and best wishes.
iqbal.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal" <neal at duxsys.com>
To: "'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'" 
<blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Bangladesh and canvisually impairedpeoplestudymath 
inhigher level?


> Hello Iqbal:
>
> I am sorry my memory was bad.
> The Lincoln Library is in Ecuador.
> It is not in Bangladesh.
>
> I will try to get more information for you in a few days.
> What city are you in or close to?
>
> 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: Friday, August 05, 2011 12:51 AM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Bangladesh and can visually 
> impairedpeoplestudymath
> inhigher level?
>
> dear neal,
> could you give me the address of dhaka [sp] lincoln library, please? i 
> asked
>
> some people about lincoln library dhaka [sp] but they could not tell me 
> the
> address. if i find them it will be very good for me for it is in our
> country.
> regards.
> iqbal.
> ----- 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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