[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

Tue Feb 4 23:54:36 UTC 2014

Hi Marissa,

You can get a grade three code manual from NLS (National Library Service) at the Library of Congress.  You know, the place where you usually order novels and things.  They have a fairly good grade three manual.

Ryan

On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:18 PM, marissa <pianogirlforlife7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Where can I learn about this grade three braille and read it? My TVI is interested to know there is a grade three braille.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com
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> Date sent: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:53:21 -0600
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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