[Ohio-talk] Some Amazing Misinformation

[Kaiti Shelton]

I tried it on my BrailleSense, and didn't have any luck.  Had I not
known that the first thing to pop up said file manager, I wouldn't
have been able to know what it was at all.  I fail to see how reading
braille with the side of your finger would be practical, or how it
would even work.  Granted, I've heard of a girl who can read braille
with her tongue so I suppose stranger things have happened.

On 7/20/14, Lillie Pennington via Ohio-talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Out of curiosity after reading your message, I attempted to read braille
> with the side of my finger. Granted, I could be wrong because I only tried
> it for about three minutes, but it seems like there is less sensitivity
> when
> braille is read like this. Therefore, I had a harder time picking up the
> individual dots.
>
> It also seems like it would be more taxing on the wrist to have it bend to
> the side all the time when you were trying to read braille, but that is
> just
> my perspective.
>
> Is  the instructor the same lady who tried to encourage people to shake
> their cans to determine what was inside of them?
>
> Good Luck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-talk [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of COLLEEN
> ROTH via Ohio-talk
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 5:54 PM
> To: ohio-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Ohio-talk] Some Amazing Misinformation
>
>  Hello Everyone,
> Please correct me if I am wrong about this.
> Yesterday I was talking to a newly blind person who asked to learn Braille
> even after she was discouraged from learning it.
> The therapist-teacher (I'm not sure of her title) told this young woman
> that
> she only knows the basics. She said she took a refresher course and that
> this student should forget everything she learned. She said that you should
> never read with your fingertips, you should read on the side of your finger
> only.
> Did I miss something? The student was also told that she would need to sign
> up for the Hadley Course after she learned the Alphabet. She also told the
> student that you read one way and you write backward.
> I can see that maybe someone could feel on the side of your finger if you
> had serious calouses after taking your Blood Sugar readings over a period
> of
> time.
> I told this student to read with her fingertips. She is not a Diabetic. I
> will be using Paratransit to go to her house to teach her braille and to
> work on Alternative Techniques for the kitchen.
> Dawn Lanting was also here yesterday.
> This Staff member should just stop teaching braille. Heaven help her
> students.
> Anyway has anyone ever heard that people should not read with their
> fingertips.
> I just want to make sure of this in case I have to state this fact to
> someone if they complain about my teaching this student and Dawn.
> Colleen Roth
>
>
>
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Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students
Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma