[NABS-L] Is Braille Overrated?

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Are you spray oil on a daily basis. I feel it is necessary for blind children and adults to learn braille so they can maintain their independence from daily living activities.

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> On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:43 AM, Joshua Hendrickson via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I'll admit that I do not use braille as much as I once did.  I used it
> quite a bit in elementary school and middle school.  Especially for
> reading books.  However, listening to audio is so much easier these
> days.  However, I'm very glad that I can read and write braille.
> Knowing how to read and write braille gives one a much needed
> understanding of how words are spelled.  That is very important
> especially when having to do any kind of writing like essays and
> papers for college.  This is where a braille display hooked up to a
> computer would be extremely helpful.  You could immediately look at
> your display while writing a paper to check how a word was spelled.
> You couldn't do this if you didn't already know braille.
> Spellcheckers are good, but they are no substitute for knoledge of
> already knowing how to spell words.
> 
>> On 1/17/18, Jameyanne Fuller via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Blog post found: https://jameyannefuller.com/2016/03/08/i-read-too/
>> This was a rant about a post I read somewhere that said that Braille was
>> useless and unnecessary (by someone who had no idea what they were talking
>> about), that I then turned into an application essay for law school, that I
>> then adapted into a blog post. I realize that I haven't included links to
>> the studies and things I'm talking about in this post, and at some point if
>> I ever have time I will go through and include links to relevant sources,
>> but this is my complete answer to your question.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NABS-L [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Zachary N.
>> Griego-Dreicer via NABS-L
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:19 AM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer <zdreicer at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Is Braille Overrated?
>> 
>> Braille is very much necessary. I think that it must be kept up with so
>> that
>> blind people like you and die can accomplish daily activities of living and
>> maintain a much-needed system of communication, because that is our basis
>> of
>> all written communication.
>> 
>> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
>> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
>> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
>> between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
>> blindness is not what holds you back.
>> Sent from my iPhone 7 Using VoiceOver
>> 
>>>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 06:41, roanna bacchus via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Students,
>>> 
>>> I hope all of you are doing well.  Yesterday my dad met a blind student
>> who came into his office to pay their tuition during the afternoon rush.
>> He
>> told my Dad that he tells people that braille is overrated.  I think it is
>> importat for all blind children to learn to read and write braille.  The
>> use
>> of braille is essential for both personal academic and employment success.
>> What are your thoughts on this?
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> 
>>> Roanna Bacchus
>>> 
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