[blparent] [Bulk] Re: bedtime stories

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,

When you scratch braille on a plastic sheet the braille will not rub off. 
If you scratch it on regular paper the dots get rubbed down and eventually 
the book won't be readable.

hth

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Lawlor" <sklawlor at mac.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:28 AM
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [blparent] bedtime stories


> Not sure I get the plastic sheets reference and how it relates to reading 
> unless I didn't read the whole thread.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] bedtime stories
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>
>> My daughter does that once in a while. Thank goodness for plastic sheets.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] bedtime stories
>>
>>
>>> When I did day-care ten years ago the children were already 
>>> disinterested in books.  I had to make the book hop if there was a bunny 
>>> or make the children do some action like flap their arms like the 
>>> chicken in Mister Gumpy's Outing.
>>> My own children never sit for books.  I just read while they play.  One 
>>> of them comes to scratch the Braille now and then.  Of course, he gets 
>>> gentle reprimands because he's a potential Braille reader.
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of 
>>> whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Amy Murillo-Hicks" <amym2 at cox.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:03 PM
>>> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: [blparent] bedtime stories
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With my children being a little older, 10 and 12, I have really noticed 
>>>> how
>>>> I just can't get them to read at all on their own without a book report 
>>>> or
>>>> extreme bribes or threats.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have discussed this with my kid's friend's parents, and we seem to be
>>>> finding that this is an epidemic and they are so in to video games, or
>>>> texting, or just being on the computer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One of the things that I have started is and audio described movie 
>>>> night
>>>> where we listen to a downloaded movie with just the sound track.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My kids are both sighted, and we have found that this is a method for
>>>> helping them to use their imagination, and have still some kind of
>>>> multi-media experience.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I used many of the resources mentioned in this thread when they were 
>>>> little,
>>>> and I found that using the twin vision books are really important:
>>>> especially the ones where the line of Braille is comparable to the line 
>>>> of
>>>> print for helping to teach my kids to read along.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure that I have any answers, just some more thoughts to add to 
>>>> the
>>>> mix.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Amy M-H
>>>>
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