[Pibe-division] ESY for braille instruction

[Greg Aikens]

The way we talk about it is in terms of being at a "critical point" in instruction, so that even the normal loss of skills over a summer break that all students demonstrate would be detrimental to the student's progress in school.  Reading fluency is a huge deal, and becomes more and more critical the older a student is.  Use your data for his current fluency and compare it to numbers from the Texas Assessment Kit for the reading rate of braille readers.  You could also compare it to the reading rate of sighted students in his class or with something like the Jerry John's.  I believe they have data for print readers through 8th grade.

Hope this helps.


On May 7, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Marianne Denning <marianne at denningweb.com> wrote:

> I am working with a 7th grade student who just completed braille
> instruction this year.  He is very very slow reading braille.  His
> parents are requesting ESY to continue improving reading speed.  The
> school is reluctant to provide ESY because he has not demonstrated
> significant loss in reading speed.  Is there any information I can
> provide the school district to show them that without continued
> instruction his braille reading skills will, most likely, decline
> significantly during the summer?
> 
> -- 
> Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
> Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
> (513) 607-6053
> 
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