[BlindTlk] Type

Fri Jan 10 00:34:49 UTC 2020

After leaving Overbrook, I had a short conversation with a former
President of the Alumnai Association.  While I attended Overbrook it
housed about 450 students from 1959 to 1971 school years.  About 2/3 of
the student population should have been in diapers every night.  Some
like me were scapegoated by students and administration.

On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, sheila leigland via BlindTlk wrote:
It was a mix of low vision students and those totally blind from birth and
I was in the totally blind from birth category.

> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 18:59:37 From: sheila leigland via BlindTlk
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> To: Ericka via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> Cc:
> sheila leigland <sheila.leigland at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Type
>
> that is for sure totally rediculous.
>
> On 1/7/2020 2:38 PM, Ericka via BlindTlk wrote:
> > I don?t see what the logic they had was. What does knitting have to do with
> > bedwetting? What are you supposed to do make your own soakers? Rags to wipe
> > your mess up? You would?ve been better off doing typing but then maybe that
> > place was so out of touch with what kids needed as far as encouragement and
> > stuff it was a good thing you were put in the public schools.
> >
> > Ericka Nelson
> >
> >> On Jan 6, 2020, at 1:55 AM, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk
> >> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Overbrook School For the Blind had a graduation prerequisite of being
> >> able to type.
> >> Since I had bedwetting problems the school wanted to put me in knitting
> >> class rather than typing.
> >> When my Mother found out she came down on the School like a ton of
> >> bricks in a very
> >> bad place and I got typing.
> >> That among other reasons was why I got mainstreamed out of Overbrook
> >> and that was before much of the disabilities legislation had been passed
> >> to
> >> support mainstreaming.
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, PRAMIT BHARGAVA via BlindTlk wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 02:41:34
> >>> From: PRAMIT BHARGAVA via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> >>> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> >>> Cc: PRAMIT BHARGAVA <pramit.vision at gmail.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Type
> >>>
> >>> I started at the age of 20. Mine is 25 WPM.
> >>>
> >>> Pramit
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:54 AM Chikodinaka mr. Oguledo via BlindTlk <
> >>> blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I am blind. sence birth. at 16sweet16. yearsold I type slow as I got
> >>>> older. I progress too faster and faster too 3words per mentit 3words
> >>>> per sekint
> >>>>
> >>>> On 1/5/20, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>>>> I think I was 14 when I started to learn to type and last time I was
> >>>>> measured I was at 45wpm without mistakes and could go to 60wpm with
> >>>>> mistakes on manual typewriters.  I tried electric typewriters and gave
> >>>>> up on them since they started going really fast and getting ahead of my
> >>>>> thought process and out of control when I typed with them.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Jamelle via BlindTlk wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 22:44:26
> >>>>>> From: Jamelle via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> >>>>>> To: BlindTlk at nfbnet.org
> >>>>>> Cc: jmail201586 at yahoo.com
> >>>>>> Subject: [BlindTlk] Type
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> At what age did you learn to type?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How many wpm can you type now?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm asking this question because I think that blind and visually
> >>>> impaired
> >>>>>> individuals are learning skills at earlier ages then some who are the
> >>>>>> same
> >>>>>> ages. I was 11-12 when I'd began typing.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> According to the hr center I'd went to a few years ago, I'm able to
> >>>>>> type
> >>>>>> 46-53 wpm.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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