[Home-on-the-range] "If Braille Were Print"

[Cindy Ray]

I think it is a good article. However, do people really get it. When you
turn the responses to braille to responses to print the seem ludicrous, yet
I am not sure people will get it. Why? Because until they start to change
their expectations of us and until many of us change our own, that won't
fix. But I do hope people really read it and pay attention. Maybe I should
have used that one yesterday for my meeting instead of the one on George
Wurtzel, though that is a good one, too. It is long, but it really does
portray a man with high expectations of himself and other blind people.
Your BELL Academy is just a week before ours.
Cindy


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Subject: [Home-on-the-range] "If Braille Were Print"

Hello federationists - in the May Monitor is a very timely and useful
article called "If Braille Were Print". As our affiliate continues planning
and working on our first BELL program, we can be reminded why braille is
both so useful and so misunderstood. As we as active members communicate
with others how important braille is for everyone with low vision and/or
blindness  it is critical that we are able to articulate our position in a
meaningful way.  This article is a must read and one that merits a bit of
time to study so that we can better state our position on braille literacy
and continue to turn misperceptions on their heads.  Happy reading! Dianne
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