[blparent] Teaching your child braille

[Robert Shelton]

You are absolutely right.  I was a university professor years ago at a
lovely little place called Michigan Tech University.  The math department
provided me a reader/grader (this was years before screen readers), and the
gal who applied for the job just happened to know Braille.  She was sighted,
and had picked it up as a kid -- just to do it.  Just one of those weird
little coincidences, but a case and point to what you said.  Having access
to a person who not only could read for me but transcribe was an
unbelievable stroke of fortune.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gloria G [mailto:gloria.graves at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:35 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Teaching your child braille

Hi,
I am sorry you feel that way. I think learning something is never a waste of
time. This may be something she could use in the future. She may run into a
blind classmate, or once she starts working may run intoa blind person, or
it is something her and I can share. I thought I would have gotten more
support on this. I think braille is a great tool and don't believe it would
hurt for a sighted person to at least know the alphabet or have an idea of
what braille is and how it is used.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S" <theblindtech at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:05 PM
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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