[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

Tue Feb 4 15:11:37 UTC 2014

Has anyone seen anything which has been transcribed in Grade 3? It might be something interesting to learn, but to my knowledge there is little use for it other than for training purposes.

Chris Nusbaum

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 4, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I will echo what has already been said here--it is a more contracted
> version of grade 2.  I learned a little of it in 7th grade, but never
> used it.  I honestly wonder if anyone does use it.  I don't know
> anyone who does.  Lillie, it's not exactly like texting in braille.
> It's more like shorthand.  Before computers were as easily available
> as they are now, secretaries and court stenographers learned a system
> of writing called shorthand.  Basically, it was a system of symbols,
> like grade two braille, that would be substituted for letters.  For
> example, if you were sighted and taking minutes for a meeting, as you
> do for OABS, you might use shorthand.  It's different than texting
> shorthand because it actually uses symbols like grade two braille uses
> contractions.  Grade three braille is basically contracted
> contractions.  I believe I still have a book at my mother's house
> somewhere that has the grade three code.  If your really curious, I
> can get it and give it to you.
> 
> Ryan
> 
>> On 2/4/14, Loren Wakefield <theweird1 at mediacombb.net> wrote:
>> T does come in handy.  I know some of it, and my wife knows quite a bit.
>> There use to be a course from Hadley that you could take and learn grade
>> III.
>> 
>> Loren
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly
>> Mihalakis
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:15 AM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list; National
>> Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, Sami,
>> 
>>         Grade 3 is even more deeply contracted than is Grade 2  and is
>> used
>> primarily for personal correspondence and notetaking purposes. Learn it if
>> you can!
>> for today, Car
>> 408-209-3239
>> 
>> as far as I know is used for personal correspondence and notetaking  a syAt
>> 06:23 PM 2/3/2014, David Andrews 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> nabs-l mailing list
>>> nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>> nabs-l:
>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/carlymih%40comcast.
>>> net
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> nabs-l mailing list
>> nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>> nabs-l:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/theweird1%40mediacombb.n
>> et
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> nabs-l mailing list
>> nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>> nabs-l:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/ryan.l.silveira%40gmail.com
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ryan L. Silveira
> 
> _______________________________________________
> nabs-l mailing list
> nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nabs-l:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/dotkid.nusbaum%40gmail.com