[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

[Lillie Pennington]

That is interesting. I am. Sort of picturing this as texting in Braille. I am kind of interested in learning this now.

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> On Feb 3, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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