[nabs-l] Readers

[Muzamil Ibrahim]

Aimee,
I think someone might explain better than this. This device is used to draw
a raised line. It comes with a stylus and 25 drawing sheets for creating
raised line and the Eraser. When I ran out of papers, I bought them through
American Printing house for the blind. 
During the time I was in stat class, I often worked with histograms and
normal distributions. Since I did not have braille books to learn what they
were, I asked my reader to sketch them for me and learned them that Way.
When I am in class, I asked my classmate to draw on my sketchpad as my
professor draw lines on the board. Below is their website. 

www.easytactilegraphics.com
Muzamil,

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Muzamil, 

I have noticed you mention something about a tactile scratchpad.  What is
this little gem you speak of?  I think it could be very helpful in many
ways. I think that would even be helpful for a law student like myself. 

Aimee  

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> On Jul 18, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Muzamil Ibrahim via NABS-L
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Anna , I only used the reader once in my statistics class because 
> Disability Services failed to keep its promise to get me the braille 
> book for the course. I found that reader through Tutoring Center. I 
> went there for several days to work with different tooters and found 
> one who worked well for me. When I was with my reader, I often wrote 
> concepts, visual descriptions, or sometimes recorded as the reader 
> read to me. I also used the sketchpad. It helped me with drawing 
> raised graphic pictures, which enabled me to get more out of the course.
> Before I sat with the reader, I read books with my JAWS several times, 
> and mark when I did not understand the visual concept and, mostly, 
> bring those to the table. I did not only rely on my reader for that 
> period of the semester, but I worked with my classmates. We sometimes 
> studied together after class and caught up with the class that way.
> 
> Happy to share so please feel free to connect, Muzamil,
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Cc: annajee82 at gmail.com
> Subject: [nabs-l] Readers
> 
> I'm just wondering about everyone's experiences with readers.  I've 
> really only had two semesters in school since I went blind, and am 
> still struggling to work out the whole reader thing.  I am a Biology 
> major so the material of my classes is quite technical.
> I have struggled to find readers that are really good in explaining
things.
> They are always people who have taken the class or a similar class I'm 
> working on, cause otherwise they wouldn't even be able to describe or 
> say a lot of the stuff they need to read.  I guess my question is 
> where do you find the best readers, and how do you manage your time with
them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Anna E Givens
> 
> 
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