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

Thu Feb 8 16:08:36 UTC 2018

Thanks, hope you get some feedback from this event.
I'll be waiting, lol! Have a great day!

On 2/7/18, Barbara Shaidnagle via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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%
>> 3c%2f%408-%3eLCE59.%3a0%40%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=IN&RI=780264&Preview=False&
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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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life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will
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