[blparent] Penmanship.

[Judy Jones]

What great ideas.  Very interesting to hear.

Judy


-----Original Message----- 
From: Brandy W., with Discovery Toys via blparent
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 4:10 PM
To: 'Misty Dawn Bradley' ; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Penmanship.

You can buy stencils both that are a whole sheet with cutouts for each 
letter with arrows to show the strokes, and individual smaller stencils. I 
have them for lower and upper case. You can get them for denilian, and 
classic printing. They are a great tool. Using an Ipad with stylus pen and a 
handwriting app also works. Sand paper tracing letters and programs like 
handwriting without tears are also options. Simple handwriting practice 
sheets can be printed from the internet or bought in books. Children can 
write in play dough, sand or shaving cream. When I'm teaching children 
handwriting I use the methods and also have them write in a daily journal. 
Then once a week I have a reader look at the journal and tell me what the 
weaknesses and strengths of the writing are when it comes to penmanship are. 
I then note those things and work with the child. Sometimes the reader will 
copy a journal entry written correctly for the child to see and practice 
from. I also have writing practice cards one can use dry erase crayons and 
markers with. These are only a few options for teaching penmanship.

Bran


-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Misty Dawn 
Bradley via blparent
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:56 AM
To: Judy Jones; Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Penmanship.

Hi Judy and all,
I would be curious too, not just for my daughter but also if I do go into 
the teaching profession.
When I was a child, I used to have sheets with raised letters that I would 
trace with my pencil or pen, so I learned some writing that way and also 
what the print letters felt like. I wonder if maybe the same concept could 
be used to teach writing letters and numbers and things like that. It would 
be more difficult with assignments though, unless you could have the child 
place the paper he or she is writing on on a screen board so you could feel 
their writing. I used to have a screen board, and I think the American 
Printing House for the Blind or the Braille Bookstore sells them. It is a 
frame with a screen on it, and when you put a sheet of paper over it and 
write on it with a pen or pencil, you can feel what was drawn or written on 
the other side of the paper because the screen is rough and allows you to 
feel the markings.
There is also some kind of foam paper with special markers that you can 
write on it with and you can feel what you wrote, and a sighted person would 
also be able to see it. I had something like that when I was in school, 
although I am not sure where my VI teacher got it. I think it was from APH 
as well, but I am not sure. It was very thick and foam-like, and the markers 
felt like regular markers rather than the puff paint pens or tubes, and the 
writing or drawing would come out as raised-line due to some kind of 
reaction between the special paper and ink.
I will probably take a look online at the sites for adaptive products and 
see if there is anything else that I have not heard of yet, but these are 
some things that I used as a child that could probably work for a blind 
parent and sighted child.
Misty


-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Jones via blparent
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 10:01 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Penmanship.

Hi All,

I would like to find out what you all do regarding penmanship.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, by the time we started home schooling, 
our girls were middle school and high school.  They approached me, said 
public school was “rude,” and asked if I would consider home-schooling.

I had looked into several curricula by that time, so was an easy choice.
So, they had the penmanship thing down, and I did not have to worry about 
that one.

Thinking back, I may have asked for assistance from a friend, neighbor, or 
someone in our church.  But that’s the only thing I would have known to do.

I am an optacon user, so I did have chances to view their writing, but did 
not have the ability to give immediate feedback as one would write.

Before I was married, the public school classes I taught were foreign 
language, and when grading papers, hired a parttime reader to mark the 
papers how and where I told them to mark.  So I didn’t have to directly deal 
with it.

Here is a question maybe good for the blind educators list.  If anyone who 
is blind has had to teach penmanship, how did you do it.

Thanks for educating an old mom who is just curious.

Judy


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