[nobe-l] Tactle graphics and other questions related tolinguisticsand TESL courses

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi,
That's right heather; APH does make several drawing kits.
I'm not sure if they still have the one with the tracing wheel.
APH products can be expensive. If you can afford something over 100 dollars, 
you can get some pretty good products with lots of stuff in  the kit for use 
of many things.

They make the draftsman kit which is a thereform paper on a board with a 
special stylus which raises your drawing.
They also make something that I think is so useful for diagrams, maps and 
charts.
It’s the wheatley drawing kit.
The weately kit is a felt board with many shapes and lines. you stick the 
material on the board  you want to use. Its all velcrow so your design is 
not permanent, btw.
The material is several shapes such as squares, circles, and triangles.
Also several different lengths of lines.
You can make  various pictures with the weatley by placing the material in 
various places.
If you cannot afford the products or you cannot find what you're looking 
for, you can make cheap tactile diagrams out of everyday craft supplies.
For something temporary, you can use wickey sticks. You could also  use 
popsickle sticks or tooth picks and have someone glue them down for 
something more permanent, but you cannot represent round stuff with them. 
I've also  had people use graphic art tape, but its harder to make round 
shapes with them.

About excel, I think it might do diagrams, but you could not create them, 
you would need help to have someone draw it with a mouse.
There probably is some free software out there to create such diagrams.
And, there used to be a lady on here who taught ESL. If she is not here, she 
definitely will be found on the nfb site as she wrote an article or two 
about it.

HTH,
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Heather Field via nobe-l
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2015 1:17 PM
To: National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List
Cc: Heather Field
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Tactle graphics and other questions related 
tolinguisticsand TESL courses

Hello Miranda,
I believe that you are referring to the drawing kit available from the
American Printing House. They have several options available for producing
tactile graphics.
I suggest that you go the their website and do a search of the catalogue for
tactile diagraming, tactile drawing, tactile graphics etc. and see what you
find.
The website is:
www.aph.org
There are a few folks who are teaching, or who have taught, ESL students. I
will try to find some contact info and e-mail it to you.
Happy searching and all the best with your studies.
Warmly,
Heather Field

-----Original Message----- 
From: Miranda B. via nobe-l
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2015 9:01 AM
To: 'National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List'
Cc: Miranda B.
Subject: [nobe-l] Tactle graphics and other questions related to
linguisticsand TESL courses

Hi everyone,

I am a college student currently in an Introduction to Linguistics course.
As I gather information about the best resources for successfully completing
this and subsequent related courses, I am trying to think of a specific tool
with which you may be familiar. This is a kit that allows someone to
hand-draw tactle diagrams, shapes, ETC. It includes a pencil-type tool with
a ridged wheel on one end and a point on the other end, swell-thermal-form
paper, and a rubber mat. The rubber mat and paper are 8.5" x 11" in size.

As I'm thinking this kit may be beneificial for my professors to produce
tree diagrams for me, could someone please point me in the right direction
to obtain this kit?

On a related note, do any of you happen to know if Microsoft Excel would
accurately produce said tree diagrams used in grammar, linguistics, and
related courses?

Lastly, do you know of email discussion lists for related linguistics and
TESL (teaching English as a second language) discussion for those of us with
visual impairments?

Thanks for your time and assistance, and have a wonderful weekend!



--Miranda



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