[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking

Tue Jun 29 13:57:04 UTC 2010

These are all the words put in easy to remember, funney frazes.  Each word is created with a dot 5 and a letter or a dot 5 and a two letter contraction.
Mother dot 5 m
Father dot 5 f
Young dot 5 f
Work dot 5 w
One dot 5 o
Day dot 5d
Some dot 5 s
Time dot 5 t
Part dot 5 p

(no space between the dot 5 and the letter)
I will give you the rest later.

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking

These are all the dot 5 words in three phrases 

Mother father young work one day some time part

Where ought there through character

Ever know lord question right here under name

Run through these riddles if you forget a word. 
He had another one for some of the other contractions, but these were the most useful and never left me!
I had a great braille teacher for my first few years.  

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zimmer, Cindy [mailto:cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 12:09 PM
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Terry P.
Not sure if Dixie is ready for the dot 5 help, but I am.  *smile

Cindy Z. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:24 AM
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I learned the brailler first and was slow at the slate.

By the way, Dixey , when you reach the dot 5 words, I have a trick for you.
My teacher made up 3 frazes to remember all the dot 5 words.
Let me know if you are ready and I will send them.

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eileen Scrivani [mailto:etscrivani at verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking

Dixie:

When I first started learning Braille, I can remember learning groups of letters in 5 or 10 letters at a time  My instructor made sure I could recognize the shapes of the letters and determine what dots made them up. 
Then she always encouraged me to practice writing them out at home and just making up silly words & names.  and Say in lesson 1 if you learn letters "A" 
through "E" you can make up words like Abe, Ada, bad, dad, be, ace, etc. 
Very simple but it gets you going and you just keep building on the skills ... just like knitting! I did learn the slate and stylus, but honestly that didn't last long because when I was in college could not take sufficient 
notes at the speed I wrote using the slate.   Again, I had a fantastic 
Braille teacher & she lent/gave me a spare Perkins Braille writer to take home.  I'm certain that really helped me in my reading & writing skills. 
Its a matter of practice, practice, practice.  You can't study it for 1 hour a week then close the book and forget about it until the next lesson time. 
When I finished all mye lessons she encouraged me to take a Braille book from the library, something simple, maybe a child's book or a book I had read in print.  I did that and although my reading went slow, I could do it. 
As you start learning the contractions, you will figure out from the context of what you read what the symbols stand for.

Good luck, sounds like you're on the right track and have a great attitude towards learning.

Eileen

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From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:55 PM
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking

> I am taking Hadley lessons for Braille writing right now.  My next 
> class I think is for grade 2.  I remember the contracted letters like 
> ing, and for and things like that.  It is the contracted words like cd 
> for could that make me a bit nuts!  Some day it will sink into this 
> very thick head of mine.
>
>
> I was just thinking of reading a brailed pattern line by line.   I think 
> it
> might be possible for me to keep track of what row I am on better 
> using Braille?  I could do this  by marking the line.  Maybe by 
> punching an earring through at the row I am on, or clipping a safety 
> pin to the page or something like that.
> .  I will have to write out a pattern for myself sometime and see how 
> it works for me.
>
>
> Dixie
>
> ~ @-> ~ <-@ ~
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eileen 
> Scrivani
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:21 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking
>
> Dixie:
>
> I'm not a speed  reader by any means nor have I ever been.  I am 
> however, an
>
> accurate reader which is more important than speed.  I love listening 
> to my audio books, but there is for certain things nothing like 
> Braille.  Even for
>
> labeling every thing from mail, cd's, yarn & other bead supplies 
> knowing grade 2 Braille is a benefit since by contracting you can 
> reduce the amount of writing space to make notes on things.  Then to I 
> get bills like my phone
>
> & water bills in Braille & my bank statements as well.
>
> Eileen
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:53 PM
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking
>
>> As a person with fairly recent  sight loss, I use Braille occasionally. 
>> I
>> learned grade 1 right after losing my sight, 6 years ago, but grade 2 
>> was a struggle.  I have labeled my spices, some light switches for 
>> the outside lights, some bottles in the bathroom, where I don't want 
>> my ID mate to be exposed to the moisture, and those kinds of things.
>> Other than that I count on my ID Mate for most identification of 
>> household cleaners, pantry items and that kind of thing.  I have 
>> started taking Braille courses again from Hadley.  I say I read at a 
>> second grade level.  Painfully slowly, one word at a time, but it is 
>> reading.  I have to say when someone said that I was illiterate since 
>> I could no longer read for myself, I have to admit I was a bit 
>> indignant.
>>
>> I hope to be able to use Braille more efficiently, the idea of 
>> labeling my yarn is a definite hope.  Braille numbers on my bead 
>> bottles certainly is a valuable use of Braille, but for reading, I 
>> count on my Jaws to jabber at me.  I can much more efficiently find 
>> information in my computer than rifling through a bunch of Brailed 
>> papers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dixie
>>
>> ~ @-> ~ <-@ ~
>>
>>
>> -----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: Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:01 PM
>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille verses talking
>>
>> I prefer to listen to a pattern directions on my computer in a doc  file.
>> That way I can listen word by word, immediately put a note in it or 
>> mark an
>>
>> X where I am if the phone rings or I stop.  I save the doc file as  a 
>> separate file from my original one and entitle the file as working on 
>> sweater, , etc.
>>
>> To each their own way.
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
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