[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

[Arielle Silverman]

My TVI spent a lot of time teaching me Grade 3 Braille in middle
school. I learned it and then rapidly forgot it. Thing is, you don't
see it in books or any other Brailled publications, and it's only
designed for personal shorthand. I don't really understand the purpose
of learning a formal code for shorthand when you can just make up your
own abbreviations. Seems the reason we memorize formal codes is so we
can read the materials that other people give us, like books. If
you're just writing notes for yourself why does it matter what symbols
you use?
I know my TVI meant well, but wonder how many under-resourced children
she could have taught Grade 1 and 2 Braille to using the time she
spent working with me on Grade 3. Seems that would have been a far
more productive use of her time.

Arielle

On 2/3/14, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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