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

[Brett Winches]

Gary, Send me privately a phone number please so I can call you.   


Merci!
Brett Winchester KD7JN 
bwinchester at icbvi.idaho.gov
208.639.8386

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Wunder, Gary
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:23 PM
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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
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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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