[nabs-l] Intro and questions

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, Ari,

         I am not any kind of authority on the subject of nihongo 
tenji (Japanese braille) but, after studying for 3 years in high 
school, and visiting Kukizaki, Japan in '97 with my hometown's sister 
city, I happened upon some basic tenji. . Have you any familiarity 
with how nihongo (spoken Japanese) is organized? If so, I can 
describe how the syllable chart is arranged in bbraille, if you want?
As for a curiossity about Canada, and blindness, I had a blind 
friend, Lynnn King who lived here in berkeley who was from Canada, 
and she could have probably answered your questions but she died last 
year of cancer. I hope you find some answers. Try other blindness 
magazines and newsletters?
>My name is Ari. I'm a totally blind student from South Africa. At the
>moment I'm studying law. I found this list on google when I was
>searching for how to learn Japanese if one is blind.
>My questions are these:
>1. I would like to study some courses corespondence, possibly online
>from either America or Canada. What American or Canadian colleges or
>institutions are good at helping disabled people do courses through
>corespondence? One important problem or aspect that does bother me is
>if I want to study something they'd have to also somehow be able to
>provide me with the prescribed textbooks and help to do research as I
>know if you guys do research you often use services such as BARD,
>Learning Ally etc, which are not available to me, so somehow they'd
>have to accommodate me being able to research in some other way.
>2. I know this is an American list, but I'm asking in case someone
>knows. When I finish my degree I'm thinking of doing a conversion
>course and emmigrating to Canada. Does anyone please know of a list or
>chat room where I can chat to blind people or students from Canada
>just to understand what it is like to live and study there, basically
>to learn more about Canadian culture and their way of life, especially
>what it is like to be blind there?
>    Thanks very much
>Ari
>
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