[Pibe-division] Article: A NewPerspective on Literacy for Students with Low Vision

[Allison Hilliker]

Hi Everyone,

Thought some of you might like to read the article I posted yesterday. While it's on the Bookshare blog, its main focus isn't actually Bookshare. I wrote a post aimed at educators that tried to encourage the use of Braille for partially sighted students.

Here's the link: http://bookshareblog.wpengine.com/2015/11/a-new-perspective-on-literacy-for-students-with-low-vision/.

I work doing technical support for Benetech/Bookshare. I've noticed that many of the TVIs who contact me through Bookshare are heavily encouraging large print and magnification for their low vision students. While that's great if it works, I couldn't help but wonder whether at least some of these kids might have an easier time reading if they were to try Braille. While a Bookshare support call is not the appropriate place for a conversation about media choice for low vision students, I thought I could try to present the idea through a blog post just to get people thinking.

It's titled a New Perspective on Literacy, but many of us in the NFB won't consider it a new perspective at all. In fact it's a perspective that existed long before I was born. But I titled it in this way in hopes that it may catch the interest of educators who are not in the NFB or who don't know many compitant Braille readers. I don't know if it'll actually get anyone to consider Braille for their students, but I'm hopeful.

I would love feedback from anyone on this list. Also, please feel free to forward to colleagues who you think may find the article interesting.

Best,
Allison
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