[Blindtlk] One More Question: Intensive Braille Programs?

[Jewel S.]

Ok, then I think I'll definitely look into that more, and it sounds
like a good posibility! Thanks!

~Jewel

On 4/12/10, Hyde, David W. (ESC) <david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us> wrote:
> Anyone can take the transcription class. Materials will come in braille upon
> request.
>
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> But don't you have to be sighted to do the Braille transcription classes? I
> have very liittle vision, and most paper just looks like blank white pages
> to me (3/350 in one eye only, with no peripheral).
> Will they allow a blind person to do the transcription classes? I thought
> that was for sighted people only? Maybe I'm just being ignorant, but that
> was my opinion of the program...
>
> ~Jewel
>
> On 4/11/10, Jessica Trask <jess28 at samobile.net> wrote:
>> Jewel,
>>
>> You may not have a choice but to go to one of the training centers. Or
>> you could do the Braille stuff through NFB they have the contract for
>> the NLS Braille   Transscription Program which includes Literary
>> Braille The Neneth Code and Music Braille They might even do computer
>> Braille too but I don't remember.
>> However with the NLS/NFB program you need to wait six months between
>> each one of their classes.
>> Jessica
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