[Iabs-talk] Fw: [Brl-coordinators] FW: Braille Awareness/Read Across America

[Kelly Doty]

Please check your calendars. If this is something you could do and would like to do to help with Braille awareness, please let me know.  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Maurer, Patricia 
To: Literacy and coin campaign support list. 
Cc: Braille Readers are Leaders contest support list 
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:29 AM
Subject: [Brl-coordinators] FW: Braille Awareness/Read Across America


Hi to all,

For your information.

Pat Maurer




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From: Teddy Blue [mailto:harrisbirdy at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:21 AM
To: Maurer, Patricia
Subject: Braille Awareness/Read Across America


Hi Mrs. Maurer,

Jan Lavine here in Stillwater, OK.

Local communities are presently seeking volunteer readers for Read Across America, March 2, 2010.  Where are we braille readers?  What a great opportunity for us to get into schools to show students about braille reading, especially those of us who might be only legally blind!  

On March 2, the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Seuss, community volunteer readers go into elementary schools to read to students in their classrooms for about 20 minutes.  Just think, a free invitation to come into schools and provide braille awareness.  According to my post office in my community of 50,000 people, presently I am the only individual actively reading and sending braille through the mails.  You better believe I am volunteering to go into the schools to read to the students using braille.  Since my skills are unique here, I have requested to be sent to as many schools as possible on that day.  What a fantastic way for me to show braille reading/awareness than as a volunteer reader in the Read Across America program.   Perhaps, too, by participating I will be making the schools aware of providing braille to students who are not totally blind, but have residual or enough low vision they are put into large print situations when they should be offered braille. 

I am hoping you will send out a message to all other braille-reading NFBers to rally and contact their local elementary school or school board to volunteer for Read Across America.  What a great way for us to have another avenue for braille awareness.

The following web site provides more information--
http://www.nea.org/readacross/

Sincerely,
Jan Lavine
Stillwater, OK