[nabs-l] Learning Braille

Kartik Sawhney sawhney.kartik at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 04:52:42 UTC 2014


Hadley's program is great. I highly recommend it. And, it is available
in India.

Best,
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-Kartik Sawhney,
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On 9/9/14, Arielle Silverman via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I don't know if Hadley is available in India. But your Braille Note is
> a great teaching tool. You can also use it to read documents in Grade
> 1 Braille.
> Arielle
>
> On 9/8/14, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> As others have said, Hadley is a good resource.  Your notetaker
>> could be useful too because you can set it to display in
>> contracted or uncontracted Braille, and if you have it set to
>> contracted Braille it will uncontract things you put your curser
>> on, so you can find out what unfamiliar contractions mean very
>> easily.
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Rahul Bajaj via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:14:33 +0530
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Learning Braille
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Even though I can use assistive technology fairly well, I think
>> Braille would be immensely useful for me in several contexts. At
>> this
>> stage, I only know the basics i.e. how letters/punctuation
>> marks/numbers are spelled in Braille; I don't know any
>> contractions
>> and cannot read large chunks of text In Braille.
>> Unfortunately, there are no Braille instructors in my town who
>> are as
>> proficient in the English language as I'd like them to be, so I
>> need
>> to figure out an efficacious way for learning Braille on my own.
>> What
>> techniques should I adopt for attaining this goal?
>> Would devices like the Braille Note be of any use from the
>> standpoint
>> of learning Braille?
>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rahul
>>
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