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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I did not realize we had a gold mine like that! I know we had talked about running an affiliate literacy program like the West Virginia affiliate, and those
slates and styli could be a great resource for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I will write to him to see if he is willing to use slates and styli. A lot of people suffer from the misperception that slates and styli are significantly
more difficult than Perkins Braillers. In reality, for someone who has no experience using a typewriter, there isn’t much of a difference, even at first. I love using a slate now that I’ve learned it at LCB because it is so much smaller than a Perkins.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We might even be able to work Braille literacy into a mentoring program….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Justin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">B.A. in Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” —MARGARET MEAD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>llee@nfbct.org<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB of Connecticut Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ct-nfb] Perkins Braillers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">His email is in my first email. Feel free to chat with him about it. If he decides to go that route, we have quite a lot of them here in the office that we could part with some
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Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Perkins Braillers<br>
From: Justin Salisbury <<a href="mailto:PRESIDENT@alumni.ecu.edu">PRESIDENT@alumni.ecu.edu</a>><br>
Date: Tue, June 25, 2013 3:01 pm<br>
To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Right. Slates and styli are also for school children learning Braille. He’ll have a lot more success with those than with Perkins Braillers.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” —MARGARET MEAD</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:llee@nfbct.org">llee@nfbct.org</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB of Connecticut Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ct-nfb] Perkins Braillers</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">He has not mentioned slates and styli. If I'm remembering our initial conversation correctly, these would be for school kids learning Braille.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Perkins Braillers<br>
From: Justin Salisbury <<a href="mailto:PRESIDENT@alumni.ecu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">PRESIDENT@alumni.ecu.edu</span></a>><br>
Date: Sat, June 22, 2013 9:38 pm<br>
To: NFB of Connecticut Mailing List <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</span></a>></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Has he mentioned anything about slates and styli? They are much less expensive and much more portable than Perkins Braillers.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">B.A. in Mathematics</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:president@alumni.ecu.edu" target="_blank">president@alumni.ecu.edu</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” —MARGARET MEAD</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:llee@nfbct.org" target="_blank">llee@nfbct.org</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB of CT list serve<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ct-nfb] Perkins Braillers</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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people there who do not have access to the resources that we have here. He will be going back soon, and would love to be able to take some Perkins Braillers with him. If anyone has one in working order that they do not use and would be willing to donate to
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