[NFB-Braille-Discussion] Early Braile

Tue Mar 21 15:24:15 UTC 2023

Did you try to contact Emily Wharton at Iowa Commission?

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I also tried to get the Code Master materials to use at my former employer and at the small local program where I currently teach four days a month. I never received any response to my request.Pauline

On March 19, 2023, at 6:48 PM, marianne denning via NFB-Braille-Discussion <nfb-braille-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:

I tried to get this book but have been unsuccessful.

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Emily Wharton developed the Code Master Curriculum for teaching blind adults when she worked at Blind Inc. Now I believe she is at Iowa Commission for the Blind?
 They start also with the alphabetic whole word contractions. Then move to the  (sorry, can't think of their name) contractions  what are word signs with no contractions in the signs. These are the signs like for the words friend, always, neither, also, blind, etc.  Once students have learned those, they know about a third of the UEB contractions already. Then they go on to learn and for of the with. But the contractin order is from easiest and most often used to hardest, so that  students can feel more of a sense of accomplishment. Their book also includes a bunch of tracking pages, a list of punctuation taught in the book, a list of contractions in category grouping, a list of contractions in alphabetical order, and a list of changes from EBAE braille.  And the good thing was, at least a while ago when I used it for teaching, was that it was free. But you need your own embosser. Emily gave out a thumb drive with the curriculum (in braille) all formatted to fit on 8.5 by 11 inch paper so that students could put it all into a 3 ring binder.
The other thing about it is that the instructor needs to know the rules of UEB very well. They are taught by  deduction or inference from the examples. They are not stated as rules.
 But I found that the order of contractions was really good compared to how I learned them. And it was free. And still may be free.
Students were really happy to get a count of the number of contractions they had learned without too much trouble especially initially. It wasn't so overwhelming that way.

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Subject: [NFB-Braille-Discussion] Early Braile

A system used successfully in Australia starts with the whole word contractions as being easiest anf emphasizes practice practice practice.
Here are some example sentences.
I’like it
Do you like it
As you like it
I have knowledge
I do not like that
Can you do that

One difficulty starting with standard early readers like Dick and Jane is that the braille words might  not be as easy as the print.

Another recently successful method is to ask the reader what words they’d like to learn first. One example was a little girl who chose Lady Gaga and suddenly started being excited about braille after resisting it I would not be surprised if many people choose their own name as something they’d like to learn first.

Best wishes, Susan Jolly

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