[nabs-l] No Braille? No Literacy!

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi all. I don't understand why there's any doubt that Braille literacy
is needed for literacy. The way I see it, we expect all sighted people
in nearly all cultures to be print literate. Why would we expect less
from the blind? If a day comes when listening is considered an
acceptable form of literacy for sighted people, then I might change my
mind, but for now I think it is a simple matter of whether or not we
believe blind people should achieve the same literacy standards. If
blind people should hope to communicate in writing with anyone else,
we need to know spelling, capitalization, written grammar, and
punctuation rules. The fact is we can get these from Braille but not
from listening alone. Furthermore, Braille is the only reliable way
for us to access any written material we want to read aloud to
somebody else, whether that be our young children or our audience at a
professional conference. It's extremely hard to read a prepared speech
or a storybook aloud to others while listening to it. If we hope to
meet the same standards of written communication, and translation
between oral and written modes, as our sighted peers, then we need
Braille. I also get really annoyed when people try to say that
technology has "replaced" Braille. Technology actually makes Braille
infinitely more portable and affordable than it was before.
Best, Arielle

On 4/25/15, Joe via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I wish my cable company would feel the same way about not making me pay
> that
> kind of money. LOL
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> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Hudson
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> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:04 PM
> To: Mabelin Ramirez; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] No Braille? No Literacy!
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> Hi, what same time I agree with you but one thing that you have to
> understand is that it takes money and manpower in order to produce the
> documents for the braille. Not everybody, and knows how to produce things
> in
> braille. This is why I'll rely on email for my Electric bill, and my cable
> bill. Because I don't want to have to have my company payout that kind of
> money.
> Joseph Hudson
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>> On Apr 25, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Mabelin Ramirez via nabs-l
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> I honestly think that braille should be put on all documents that we
>> blind
> folk receive. Because think about this for a minute, we won't always have
> sighted peers around us.
>> We can't always depend on sighted folks all the time to read things to
>> us.
> Plus the scanning apps we sometimes use aren't very accurate when it comes
> to printed material. This should also apply in schools as well.
>> I'm just voicing my opinion on this.
>> If anyone disagrees that is fine.
>> All of us have our own opinions.
>> This is just my thought on the matter.
>> Take care all,
>> Mabelin
>>
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