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

[Chris Westbrook]

As much as I like braille and am a proponent of it, I've always thought the 
argument below was not valid.  Why?  Because braille is so much less 
available than print.  I think this is the big elephant in the room that no 
one wants to talk about.  I would love to have a braille display for home, 
but I just can't afford it.  I can't gedt state help either because I am 
already employed.  I don't understand why twenty years later braille 
displays are still just as much out of reach of the average blind person as 
they were when they were first made.  Yes there is hard copy braille, but it 
is huge and bulky compared to print.  Braille cannot really be compared to 
print because it is so much more costly to produce on a mass scale.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "slery" <slerythema at insightbb.com>
To: "'NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200discount 
onourBraille products


> One question, Dean.
>
> Can we tell public schools that they no longer need to waste a teacher's
> time on reading because most of the kids have been auditorilly reading for
> years by the time they get to school and that is perfectly acceptable for
> them to succeed?
>
> Cindy
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dean Martineau
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:25 PM
>> To: 'NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200
>> discount onourBraille products
>>
>>
>> I have to say that I agree with Everett, but at the same
>> time, the conversation isn't too useful and can take away
>> from the essential point.  I am a very literate person, using
>> both Braille and audio reading techniques quite effectively.
>> Nobody will tell me that I am not reading, processing
>> information, when I read auditorially.  At the same time, the
>> real point is that for a blind person to succeed in the world
>> of work and independent living, competency in Braille is
>> somewhere between highly beneficial and essential.  A blind
>> person without high Braille competence has many more
>> opportunities than one who does not.  So yes, non-braille
>> readers can be literate, but the more Braille one has, the better.
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>
>> -----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 11:36 AM
>> To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Fwd: Happy Birthday Mr. Braille! - $200
>> discount on ourBraille products
>>
>> Good afternoon Liz,
>>
>> What does literacy mean to you?  I would say that the least
>> important part
>> of litercy is the medium by which the symbols are acquired,
>> but is the
>> synthesis of the symbols into meaningful propositions.
>>
>> In other words, literacy is about successful communication,
>> not about the
>> means of communication, be it dots, ink or sound.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Everett
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Liz Bottner" <liz.bottner at gmail.com>
>> 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 all,
>>
>> I don't mean to offend or start any major heated discussion,
>> but my own personal view is that if someone cannot read print
>> and doesn't know Braille, then they are, by all means,
>> illiterate. Just listening to audio or reading via a
>> screenreader on the computer, in my view, isn't actually
>> reading; that's having things reed to you. I'd be interested
>> in others' thoughts on this matter.
>>
>> Just my thoughts, for what they're worth,
>>
>> Liz
>>
>> email:
>> liz.bottner at gmail.com
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>>
>>
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