[blparent] Teaching your child braille

[Tammy]

Hi,

Why would this be a waste of anybody's time?  both of my older children know 
at least a little braille, Colyn started learning it at an early age because 
we didn't know how much sight he had, but Remus is just interested so I've 
been teaching him a little when he asks.  Both my husband and I are blind so 
my kids write little notes to us and braille cards and we braille our board 
games etc.   yes it is fun but it's useful too, and another skill they can 
have and use.  I know you're going to say that we can do all of this using a 
computer but isn't it easier just to do it by hand?

Tammy

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Teaching your child braille

I don't think this would be very productive. Or have no fruitful games to 
your child. It might be fun to maybe interesting to learn at first, but this 
is a waste of your daughters time. Please rethink his decision

Gabe Vega
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On Apr 2, 2013, at 4:04 PM, "Gloria G" <gloria.graves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am a first time mom and wll have my daughter in early July. I am blind 
> and am a braille user. I am planning to purchase twin vision books to read 
> to my daughter when she comes and up through her early years. Because I am 
> a blind parent I thought it would be nice to teach my daughter braille. 
> She will most likley be sighted, but thought it would be nice to at least 
> teach her the basics, meaning the alphabet and numbers in braille. I 
> thought it would just be something extra she could have under her belt. My 
> question is, have any of you taught your sighted children braille, and if 
> so, how did you go about doing this? I learned braille with using my 
> fingers, but because she will be sighted, I am wondering how this will 
> work because I have heard that many sighted people read braille with their 
> eyes. Thanks for any suggestions or advice in advance.
> Gloria
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