[Pibe-division] People Braille

[Sheila Amato]

Great game, Carrie - I use a variation on this when I do presentations or teach graduate students.

I use white paper plates, 2 chairs and six people.

We create a cell by having dots 1 and 4 (2 people, each holding one plate) stand up shoulder to shoulder. Dots 2 and 5 are seated on the chairs in front of them, and dots 3 and 6 sit on the floor directly in front of the folks on chairs. Thus, we have a top, middle, and bottom to our human cell. 

The 6 participants keep their plates on their lap. When a letter or contraction is called out, the folks who have plates that correspond to dots in that letter or contraction hold their plate up under their chin and face the plate forward. 

This is also good for folks who have mobility disabilities. I've done this with folks in wheelchairs who were dots 2 and 5, and thus, they were able to participate as well. 

Sheila
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  From: Carrie Gilmer 
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  Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:58 PM
  Subject: [Pibe-division] People Braille


  Greetings!

   

  I came up with this as a new way for my Saturday School kids to have fun with Braille. Not all of my ingenious ideas stick (c'mon!-smile)-hope this one will. Try it with your kids, families and their friends at your seminars or Saturday schools, at your teen nights and student meetings or chapter meetings, with your students in school and to sighted classmates, post it on www.braille.org.

   

  People Braille

  You will need: a minimum of six people (for each cell)

  A minimum of six frozen pizza cardboard circles (or cut out your own)

  Tape the circles with double sided carpet tape or good old duct tape to the floor about 12 inches apart in the shape of a Braille cell

  Each person represents a dot. For a "round" or game someone would be dot one always and someone dot two, etc.

  For the Braille novice or learner do the alphabet

  For those with grade II knowledge and depending on the size of the group take it up a notch to contractions

  The leader would call out "letter A" and of course only dot one would get on the cell, "letter B" and dots one and two and so on and so forth.

  You could figure a way to keep it competitive and keep score for learners, a penalty for not knowing your dot number needed to get on or off the cell for example.

   

  I believe this has potential to be a great, fun, active way to get learners to correlate and remember dot numbers with each letter or contraction while getting a sort of mental map, repetition that is not boring works wonders for learning! It is also a great way for siblings and family and interested others to learn. 

   

  Try it and tell me how it went!  

   

   

  Happy Braille to you! 

   

  Carrie Gilmer, President

  National Organization of Parents of Blind Children

  A Division of the National Federation of the Blind

  NFB National Center: 410-659-9314

  Home Phone: 763-784-8590

  carrie.gilmer at gmail.com

  www.nfb.org/nopbc

   



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