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

Wed Feb 7 23:10:39 UTC 2018

I would hope some of my friends from Houston and Austin would, but I have
no way of knowing unless someone mentions it on those talk line address
mentioned at the very top of the notice...

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Cheryl Fields via Ohio-Talk <
ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> 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:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Jeanine Lineback <jlineback at nfbtx.org>
> > Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:30 PM
> > Subject: [NFBT] Fwd: Rice University hosts innovative symposium on
> braille
> > reading and writing
> > To: NFB of Texas <member at nfbtx.org>, NFB Austin Chapter <
> > austinchapter at nfbtx.org>
> >
> >
> > The detailed announcement is below my signature.
> >
> > Jeanine lineback
> > President National Federation of the blind of Texas Austin chapter
> > 512-677-7512 <(512)%20677-7512> (Austin chapter phone)
> > Together with love, hope and determination we can turn dreams into
> reality!
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > *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*
> >
> > [image: Image]
> >
> > Rice University
> >
> > Office of Public Affairs / News & Media Relations
> >
> > NEWS RELEASE
> >
> > 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*
> > <http://rice.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d8%2f%
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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>.
> >
> > -30-
> >
> > This news release can be found online at *http://news.rice.edu*
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> >
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> Cheryl E. Fields
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