[Home-on-the-Range] FW: Updated links for tomorrow’s braille study group and online voiceover chats: please use these newer links!

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From: 'Chancey Fleet' via Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library <HeiskellTech at googlegroups.com> 
Sent: Friday, October 6, 2023 3:56 PM
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Subject: Updated links for tomorrow’s braille study group and online voiceover chats: please use these newer links!

 

since we revised the meeting times quite a while ago.





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Additional resources:

Hadley has free courses that are designed for learning by sight or by touch depending on what your current level of sight is and what your ultimate goal is. Long term it is always a good idea to start learning by touch if you have any sight loss at all. You can register for one of their braille courses at:

https://hadley.edu/learn?topic_id=15

Once you have registered as a student of Hadley, you qualify for a free year of access to bookshare.org which is a collection of freely available books in a variety of formats for visually impaired people.

Call your local library of congress talking book library to get on the waiting list to borrow a braille display which will make it faster to download books in braille format without having to wait for "braille on demand" books to be embossed and mailed to you. A braille display will allow you to carry a large collection of books compared to needing a lot of space to store physical copies of braille material.
https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/support/supporthelp

An additional place to start contains a lot of links to other resources around the web and another form of tools for learning grade 1 braille.
https://www.braillists.org/braille/learn/

Braille for Beginners https://www.braillists.org/beginners/

You can request a free slate and stylus from freeslates.nfb.org because reading and writing will help with learning faster.

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