[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

Wed Feb 5 00:05:00 UTC 2014

I never used NLS.  I never have.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille

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.

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 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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