[NABS-L] Learning Braille as a Young Adult

[Sandra Gayer]

Hello  Rahul, My name is sandra and I teach Braille, (literary Braille
and Braille Music). I use Skype as I live in Europe and the majority
of my students are in America.

Practice is one element of speeding up. Another technique is
memorising, (using short term memory):

Reading two lines before speaking, speaking the first line and holding
the second line in your mind whilst reading the next line. Then you
have three lines
running and keep that gap going while you read. It isn't just a case
of reading faster but digesting the information faster as well. My
personal best is a paragraph difference between speech,memory and
reading to be memorised.

My email address is sandragayer7 at gmail.com if you want to chat off list.

I hope some of this is helpful to you.
Very best wishes,
Sandra.

On 7/7/18, David Andrews via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Well, I am not a Braille teacher, but from what I read, and from
> talking to people, it is primarily practice.  For most adults it
> takes at least an hour a day for two years to build up speed.  It is
> possible, but you will have to work at it.
>
> Dave
>
> At 11:10 AM 7/6/2018, you wrote:
>>Hi Everyone,
>>
>>I am a 24 year old lawyer who happens to be blind since birth. I did
>>not learn Braille in my younger years, due to lack of availability of
>>English language Braille tutors and a feeling that this would not have
>>much practical utility for me, given the advent of adaptive tech.
>>
>>However, I have recently come to realize that Braille would be very
>>useful for me for the purpose of being able to read aloud something
>>verbatim. I find this to be virtually impossible with screen reading
>>software. Braille might also be useful for referring to my notes in
>>court as using a screen reader in that context pretty much prevents
>>you from listening to what's happening around you.
>>
>>While I have started learning Braille, my reading speed is abysmally
>>slow, so much so that I doubt I'll ever be able to get to a point
>>where I'm able to use Braille on a realtime basis in the situations
>>that I've described above. I was wondering if those of you who are
>>late Braille learners could shed some light on how I might be able to
>>get to a point where I'm able to acquire a reasonable speed, apart
>>from practicing reading Braille regularly. Thank you.
>>
>>Best,
>>Rahul
>
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