[nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discount on ourBraille products

Tue Jan 6 19:32:05 UTC 2009

Good afternoon Gary,

I imagined that this was an exagerated statement.  But, when read by someone 
that does not know much about vision loss may be interpreted to mean that 
every blind person must know braille to be successful, or that braille is 
the only successful way to communicate with the blind.

I for one made it quite nicely through the first year of law school, and run 
my own IT Consulting business, without knowing braille, so I imagine that it 
isn't necessary for every blind individual to know.

That being said, I do see the value of using braille as a medium for 
obtaining literacy skills if an individual cannot read printed text early on 
in life.

Thanks,
Everett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wunder, Gary" <WunderG at health.missouri.edu>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discount on 
ourBraille products

> Hi Everett. The statement probably overshoots the mark to try to make
> the point that so very much about reading and writing comes through
> direct observation of the text and that so many don't get that
> opportunity. It is hard to learn spelling and punctuation if one has
> never seen print or felt Braille, and I think that is part of what we as
> Braille advocates try so hard to communicate, perhaps at the cost of
> making generalizations that don't apply to everyone.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of E.J. Zufelt
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:06 PM
> To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs]Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discount on
> our Braille products
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> "[Braille]  is the only method by which the blind can be truly
> literate".
>
> I take exception to this statement.  I know only enough braille to play
> poker.  I am completely blind and I consider myself more literate than
> the average individual who has sight.
>
> Everett
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
> To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:06 PM
> Subject: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200 discount on our
> Braille products
>
>
>
>>
>>HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. BRAILLE!
>>
>>Longueuil, January 6th, 2008  -  January 4th 2009 marked the two
>>hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is
>>the inventor of the Braille reading and writing system used
>>internationally by people who are blind and visually impaired. It is
>>the only method by which the blind can be truly literate.  Statistics
>>show that 85% of employed blind people use Braille to perform part of
> their job.
>>
>>HumanWare has been at the forefront of providing award-winning Braille
>>solutions for both students and professionals. HumanWare's BrailleNote
>>note takers are used by thousands of students and professionals who
>>create and access documents and books to be read in Braille.  HumanWare
>
>>offers other Braille solutions from the pocketsize BrailleConnect for
>>use with mobile devices and laptops, several sizes of the Brailliant
>>Braille displays for the workplace, and personal and institutional
> Braille embossers.
>>
>>HumanWare will be celebrating this two hundredth anniversary throughout
>
>>the year with many future announcements. To begin the year with the
>>true spirit, HumanWare is pleased to offer to all of our customers in
>>the Americas a $200 discount on the purchase on any of our Braille
> products.
>>
>>HumanWare realizes that much work remains to be done to insure that all
>
>>blind individuals have an opportunity to learn and use Braille.
>>HumanWare has worked on many initiatives in the past to make Braille
>>more accessible and will vigorously pursue these activities in 2009 and
>
>>beyond to make illiteracy among the blind a thing of the past.
>>
>>This offer is limited to the month of January 2009 and applies only to
>>the following products:
>>
>>. BrailleNote mPower
>>. BrailleNote Deaf-Blind Communicator
>>. BrailleNote PK
>>. BrailleConnect
>>. Brailliant
>>. Mountbatten Brailler (in U.S.A. only) . ViewPlus Braille Embossers
>>About HumanWare HumanWare (www.humanware.com) is the global leader in
>>assistive technologies for the print disabled. HumanWare provides
>>products to people who are blind and have low vision and students with
>>learning disabilities.
>>HumanWare offers a collection of innovative products include
>>BrailleNote, the leading productivity device for the blind in
>>education, business and for personal use; the Victor Reader product
>>line, the world's leading digital audiobook players, and SmartView
>>Xtend, the first fully modular and upgradeable CCTV-based video
> magnifier.
>>
>>For more information:
>>HumanWare
>>Nicolas Lagace
>>Tel.: (450) 463-1717
>>E-mail: nicolas.lagace at humanware.com
>
> David Andrews and white cane Harry.
>
>
>
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