[nabs-l] Learning to learn faster

[Lillie Pennington]

I personally can't stand human readers. I would say that my Braille reading and comprehension of a screen reader are about the same.

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> On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Jamie Principato <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How many hours a night must you spend reading in order to keep up with and be successful in your classes? Are you using Braille or a screen reader? I'd love to hear everyone weigh in on this. If you don't read for class every night, how many hours a week?
> 
> Jamie
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I find it easier to skim in Braille than in audio or E-text. You can
>> skim in Braille by looking for indented text, sliding your fingers
>> down the leftmost edge of the page looking for spaces where the text
>> is indented or centered to indicate a new paragraph or section
>> heading, or of course, flip to the next physical page.
>> Also, I'm not sure speed is  the end goal, at least not all the time.
>> I think a better goal is to achieve a good speed-to-accuracy ratio.
>> That is, you want to understand as much  as possible in as little time
>> as possible. Anyone can put their screen reader on 500 words a minute
>> and just breeze through, but if you comprehended less than half what
>> was spoken, that's not useful at all. Similarly, carefully reading in
>> Braille at 100 words per minute but understanding everything you read,
>> and remembering it later so you don't have to re-read right before the
>> test, is valuable.
>> I'm one of those Braille readers who reads very quickly, and I've
>> often found, especially as an adult reading denser material and having
>> less practice with Braille, that I have to force myself to slow down
>> or I start missing stuff.
>> 
>> Arielle
>> 
>>> On 2/24/14, Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Good afternoon, Sophie,
>>> 
>>>        Growing up,I admit, I took braille very much for granted,
>>> couldn't fathom those blinks I heard about who, didn't read braille.
>>> Served the Federation's summer program as the braille instructor, was
>>> a devotee of this page slate I have. Was beginning to learn Grade 3,
>>> the whole bit. I forgot, in studying Japanese language, I, with the
>>> help of a key my Dad found for me On-line, began teaching myself
>>> nihongo tenji (Japanese braille) Then, at age 19, I was hit by a car
>>> which caused severe brain damage, a symptom of which has been acute