[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille

[Ramona Walhof]

Any Braille reader who reads much uses as many fingers as possible.  First, 
both hands are essential if available.  second, three fingers on each hand 
help you to keep your place, and you can read half the line with each hand. 
When you are just getting started, it is easy to develop bad habits which 
will slow you down if allowed to continue.  Many people find that their 
middle  finger is just as important as the first finger.  If the first 
finger is not as sinsitive as the middle one, use it for reinforcing your 
place, and make the middle one the dominant finger, preferrably on both 
hands.  But you can use different fingers on your two hands if it works 
better and doesn't confuse you.  .

I have taught a lot of Braille to people who use all kinds of conbinations 
of fingers, and some of them started late and developped pretty good speed. 
Another danger is that you allow yourself to be stiff and rub the dots.  The 
lighter the touch, the easier it is to feel the dots.  I used to give my 
students a rabbit's foot and tell them to pet it with all their fingers to 
get the feeling of lightly stroking the Braille, always going the right 
direction across the line.

 It takes regular practice.  That's the  most important thing.  You can tell 
that this is one of my soap boxes.

Ramona
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "slery" <slerythema at insightbb.com>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille


> Joyce,
>
> You can use your middle and ring fingers for reading braille. It is not
> limited to only your pointer fingers. Really fast braille readers use both
> hands and many use more than one finger.
>
> Cindy S.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Blindhands at aol.com
>> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:45 PM
>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille
>>
>>
>> I ordered Ramona's book that is available in the NFB store on
>> learning
>> Braille.  It is a book with an audio tape.  I will let folks
>> know how  I do
>> with learning more Braille then I know now.  My pointer
>> finger on my  right
>> hand does have a toughness to it due to knitting I think.
>> any  suggestions
>> will be most helpful.
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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