[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

[David Andrews]

Grade 3 Braille has lots of abbreviations.  It is basically a Braille 
shorthand.  There aren't a lot of teaching materials, and nothing 
regularly printed in it.  It was never widely used.

Dave

At 07:45 PM 2/3/2014, you wrote:
>Hi All.
>
>I am creating this topic further to Dave's post about NFB training 
>centers, who said that he learned Grade 3 Braille in those  centers.
>I didn't want to post this in that topic so as not to go off-topic.
>So I would like to know, could someone try to explain how this 
>works? Because to be honest, this is the first time that I'm hereing 
>about it.  Was this only discovered recently? Does it have, say, 
>more contractions then grade 2 braille uses?
>I'm sure that I'll be able to understand your explanations about it, 
>because I have been using braille for quite a long time (since I was 
>in kindergarten, and now I'm in 11th grade).  I don't think I've 
>learned grade 2 braille when I first sttted to learn braille, but I 
>have been using grade 2 braille for as long as I can remember, and 
>am therefore very good at it, if I say so myself.
>Not only that, but I just finished the course on Braille music at my 
>music school.
>I hope you'll be able to explain how Grade 3 Braille works.
>Thanks.
>
>Sami.