[Nfbv-announce] Braille Awareness/Read Across America

[Fredric Schroeder]

FYI.  See the note below for information on a great public awareness
activity.

 

FKS

 

From: Teddy Blue [mailto:harrisbirdy at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:21 AM
To: Maurer, Patricia
Subject: Braille Awareness/Read Across America

Hi Mrs. Maurer,

 

Jan Lavine here in Stillwater, OK.

 

Local communities are presently seeking volunteer readers for Read Across
America, March 2, 2010.  Where are we braille readers?  What a great
opportunity for us to get into schools to show students about braille
reading, especially those of us who might be only legally blind!  

 

On March 2, the celebration of the birthday of Dr. Seuss, community
volunteer readers go into elementary schools to read to students in their
classrooms for about 20 minutes.  Just think, a free invitation to come into
schools and provide braille awareness.  According to my post office in my
community of 50,000 people, presently I am the only individual actively
reading and sending braille through the mails.  You better believe I am
volunteering to go into the schools to read to the students using braille.
Since my skills are unique here, I have requested to be sent to as many
schools as possible on that day.  What a fantastic way for me to show
braille reading/awareness than as a volunteer reader in the Read Across
America program.   Perhaps, too, by participating I will be making the
schools aware of providing braille to students who are not totally blind,
but have residual or enough low vision they are put into large print
situations when they should be offered braille. 

 

I am hoping you will send out a message to all other braille-reading NFBers
to rally and contact their local elementary school or school board to
volunteer for Read Across America.  What a great way for us to have another
avenue for braille awareness.

 

The following web site provides more information--

http://www.nea.org/readacross/

 

Sincerely,

Jan Lavine

Stillwater, OK

 

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