[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille, on different notes than before

Thu Aug 3 19:00:54 UTC 2017

I have a sister who has glacolma and lost one eye from a detached retna.
When her kids were little, I found magnetic letters, with, you guessed, braille on them.  I thought while teaching her own kids, she might get  interested in learning braille.  She works for the school system, as a secretary.  
If she would take it up, she could be prepared, if she ever loses the other eye.   She has never asked me or Henry to mentor her in learning braille.  She can not drive, since she had a caterac removed from her good eye.  
What does she think, oh it will never happen to me, well it already happened once!

You can lead a horse to water, but you can not make him drink!

Terry P.

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Hi Jody, way to go!
I agree with you when a teacher or someone in the school system says "Oh, Braille is too expensive to teach, or, too cumbersome to carry around, or, Johnny can still see enough to read a book."
I think that it would be a good thing if sighted people learned Braille just in case they lost their sight.

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Hello Sandra and all,

I also have our OP. When I was in school I could read print if I stuck my nose in the book. I graduated from high school with a second grade reading speed. That was considered adequate?? I went to college but I was not able to keep up with the work and I did not finish. Something I have always regretted

I learn braille many years ago thanks to Ramona's book beginning braille for adults. I am now taking the Hadley braille literacy 4 course to learn you EB.

I love braille! I can finally read at arms length and I am no longer limited by my ever decreasing vision. My reaction to learning braille is very emotional! I am excited and feel I am making up for lost time. It is awesome!

I am a huge advocate for braille especially for low vision students! Doesn't it make sense that a child that cannot see should learn to read braille?

JODY

thunderwalker321 at gmail.com

"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik 
Weihenmayer

> On Aug 3, 2017, at 9:44 AM, Sandra Streeter via Nfb-krafters-korner 
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since I missed reading yesterday’s submissions, I hope it’s okay to 
> continue with thoughts on Braille. As I just said, I am decidedly anti-UEB 
> and have been since they did some surveys years prior to rolling out the 
> new system. I have cancelled one Braille mag because of my frustration 
> with it. Some of the new contractions make it harder for me to pronounce 
> the words (e.g., r, ed, u, c, tion, gets pronounced “red duction” in my 
> brain). Despite the supposed space-savings, I am finding a lot of clutter 
> that a literary Braille user like me just doesn’t need to see. I wish that 
> there had been two systems: one for academic work (in which you really do, 
> often, need to see things like underline and bolding, if you’re doing a 
> paper for instance), and one for those just wanting to have Braille for 
> personal uses, like what I’m about to list:
>
>
> I had it easy, since I am blind due to severe ROP and there was no choice 
> but to learn Braille for me prior to all the audio tech options today:
> So, these are the spheres in which I use Braille, on a daily basis, 
> really:
>
>
> * All my CDs, DVDs and NLS cartridges are labeled. I live alone, and even 
> if not, wouldn’t choose to constantly check in with a sighted partner 
> about what a given item is.
>
> * Kitchen products, food items (once run through my ID Mate), cleaning 
> stuff? All labeled!
>
> * Perfumes, other health and beauty items, Braille labeled;
>
> * Appliance labels
>
> * Index cards for various oral presentations on blindness, eating 
> disorders and poetry; handouts for said presentations, Braille-labeled at 
> the bottom for easy distribution; Braille hardcopies of handouts also 
> used.
>
> * Notes for mastering new equipment—Brailled again;
>
> * Recipes
>
> * Craft patterns (either found commercially or transcribed from a 
> recording from a borrowed Braille copy or someone’s print copy being read 
> aloud); also, any mathematical conversions for sizing that need to 
> happen—I’m a very visual learner, so just doing it on an audio calc doesn’t 
> work well.
>
> * French language materials—two very large goals, to read “Les Mis” in its 
> original language, and to write an entire poem in French
>
> * Directions for a travel route;
>
> * Notes to self—from phone calls, conversations, etc;
>
> * Phone #s and addresses—just getting them off a notetaker doesn’t work 
> for me, since I’m a very visual learner
>
> * Old mail—Braille labeled after scanning or meeting with live reader;
>
> * Braille music scores for church choir and for Mystic River Chorale—no 
> notation (I found Braille music too tedious, so devised a system of raised 
> markings to help with the trickier aspects of mastering music);
>
> * Braille Bible—especially useful for liturgist activities;
>
> * favorite poetry in Braille—though I had to transcribe it from audio 
> because unavailable in commercial formats;
>
> * My own poetry—all Brailled, either initially, or if I’m up for a 
> challenge and want to try writing something via computer first, 
> transcribed later;
>
> * Braille mags—at this point, several devotionals, “Dialogue” and “Poetry”, 
> and several newsletters.
>
> * Once in a great while,  Braille books—especially for reading aloud, or 
> mastering anything I have to really study; audio okay for leisure reading, 
> but not for study;
>
> * Short grocery lists too small to bother printing out;
>
> I think I about covered everything.
>
>
>
>
> Sandra
>
> One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar.
> (Helen Keller)
>
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