[Ohio-talk] Fwd: [NFBT] Fwd: Rice University hosts innovative symposium on braille reading and writing

Wed Feb 7 22:00:18 UTC 2018

Barbara, love this event! Something we may want to think about doing.
Approaching braille this way with educaters and medical professionals
may be a great way to help them understand the benefits.
Do you know anyone attending?

On 2/6/18, Barbara Shaidnagle via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Subject: [NFBT] Fwd: Rice University hosts innovative symposium on braille
> reading and writing
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> The detailed announcement is below my signature.
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> *From:* "Katharine Shilcutt" <kshilcutt at rice.edu>
> *Date:* February 6, 2018 at 11:25:43 AM CST
> *To:* jlineback at nfbtx.org
> *Subject:* *Rice University hosts innovative symposium on braille reading
> and writing*
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> Rice University
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> Office of Public Affairs / News & Media Relations
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> NEWS RELEASE
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> Katharine Shilcutt
> 713-348-6760 <(713)%20348-6760>
> *kshilcutt at rice.edu* <kshilcutt at rice.edu>
>
> *Rice hosts innovative symposium on braille reading and writing*
>
> HOUSTON -- (Feb. 6, 2018) -- Braille, the writing system that allows people
> who are blind or have other visual impairments to read by touch, was once
> greatly understudied by the academic community. This began to change with
> new research that emerged two decades ago showing that the brain’s visual
> cortex lights up when people who are born blind read braille.
>
> “That wasn’t supposed to happen, right? The visual cortex was for vision,”
> said Rice University’s Robert Englebretson, department chair and associate
> professor of linguistics. “I was talking with a neuroscience professor
> about this in the late 1990s who said, ‘If that’s true, it’s really going
> to change a lot of what we understand about the brain.’ Well, it turns out
> that it is true and it did change a lot of what we understand about the
> brain.”
>
> Today Englebretson and research partner Simon Fischer-Baum, assistant
> professor of psychology, are hoping to launch even greater investigations
> into what braille can teach researchers about how the brain works with an
> upcoming *Scientia Small Conference on Interdisciplinary Research
> Perspectives on Braille Reading and Writing*
> <http://rice.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2f%3c%2f%408-%3eLCE59.%3a0%40%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=IN&RI=780264&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=169506&Action=Follow+Link>,
> a series of lectures and workshops to be held March 8-10 in Rice Memorial
> Center's Farnsworth Pavilion.
>
> Other conferences on braille have been held in the past but have focused
> primarily on advocacy and literacy rather than academics or research,
> Englebretson said. The Scientia Small Conference has invited academics and
> researchers from across a wide selection of fields and specialties,
> including professors from Baylor College of Medicine, the University of
> California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University and the University of
> Michigan. An international cohort of scholars from New Zealand’s University
> of Auckland, Ireland’s Maynooth University, England’s Royal Holloway
> University of London, Canada’s University of Montreal and Estonia’s Tallinn
> University will also be in attendance.
>
> “We have people from the special education world who are speaking and we
> have people from the cognitive and neuroscience and linguistics world,”
> Englebretson said. “And what we hope to get out of this is some kind of new
> synergy -- some kind of new collaborative research projects that many of
> the people present might want to do together that they wouldn’t be able to
> do independently.”
>
> Seating for the conference is limited, so early registration is
> recommended. The registration fee of $30 includes all talks and round-table
> discussions as well as coffee and lunch breaks. Online registration ends
> Feb. 21.
>
> The conference agenda and registration information are available *here*
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> Members of the news media interested in learning more can contact Katharine
> Shilcutt, media relations specialist at Rice, at *kshilcutt at rice.edu*
> <kshilcutt at rice.edu> or 713-348-6760 <(713)%20348-6760>.
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