[Mdpobc] Question of the day

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Personally I agree that braille under fingers is very important.  As the child progresses in school, he or she needs to learn the proper spelling of words, sentence structure and punctuation.  That can only be learned from reading books, not listening to them.  These skills are imperative in high school, college and the working world.  Furthermore, many books are now available for download onto Braille notetakers and computers with braille displays so the school can't say they take up too much room now!  It is fine to want reading to be enjoyable so hopefully the teacher encourages required reading outside of the coursework allowing students to pick something of interest for them.  This would be a great time for the use of audio books.


As your son moves to high school and college, he will need to become proficient in the use of audiobooks for cousework; but make sure that braille is available as much as possible.  My son used braille as his primary preference all the way through college because he liked being able to refer back to passages and found them easier to find in braille than on audiobooks.  He also enjoyed reading to himself much more than listening to the audiobooks because they honestly bored him to sleep.


Good luck and keep advocating!


Cherlynn Venit (mom to David Rissling-Venit)


-----Original Message-----
From: Trudy Pickrel <tlpickrel at hotmail.com>
To: Maryland Parents of Blind Children List <mdpobc at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 12:48 pm
Subject: [Mdpobc] Question of the day


So last night at parent teacher conference I find out that they have been 
allowing our son in six grade to do all audiobooks. Reason why I don't know. The 
language arts teacher said will you please consider allowing him to do this 
after I stated that this was concerning to me. Because he says he wants  reading 
to be enjoyable. Excepting all thoughts on this. 

Mine is No. Must have Braille under fingers. If their  concern is slowness and 
enjoyment the only way to get that is with repetition.  

What is your thoughts

Trudy Pickrel
President Md Parent Blind Children. 
301-501-1818
Www.TLCbytheLake.com


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