[Pibe-division] Help with materials

Marianne Denning marianne at denningweb.com
Wed Jan 6 15:03:01 UTC 2016


I assume they are learning English braille.

On 1/6/16, Robert Pardue via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Unless these students are preparing to teach only uncontracted braille, I
> would not recommend the extra work. I would give the students access to the
> contraction lists that are applicable and let them see braille for what it
> truly should be. Learning solely from uncontracted braille will not prepare
> these future teachers for what is necessary in teaching true braille
> literacy. I applaud the intention, but this approach may have unintended
> consequences; for, as you said, braille instruction is new for these teacher
> candidates.
>
> ________________________________
> R. Martin Pardue, M.A.T. NCLB
> Teacher of Blind Students
> OPSB Vision Services
>
> "If I want to do it, nothing is difficult. If I don't want to do it, nothing
> is easy.''
> Sifu Shi Yan Ming
>
> ________________________________________
> From: PIBE-Division <pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org> on behalf of adrijana
> prokopenko via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 5:18 AM
> To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List; community-service;
> humanser; rehab
> Cc: adrijana prokopenko
> Subject: [Pibe-division] Help with materials
>
> Maybe I should give the world a little lesson on special education
> degree and how it works in Macedonia. This is a 4-year university
> degree mainly consisting of general courses regarding disability and
> if they decide to choose blindness as their specialty, they have more
> of these courses in their final years of study. Most of these courses
> are taught by Macedonian professors and are related to history,
> psychology and education for the blind and some are full of research
> and numbers regarding disability related figures  such as employment
> rate and a lot of the time they focus on matters that are long dealt
> with in most developed countries and that blind people faced 50 years
> or more ago.  These books are not very encouraging and realistic to
> describe some aspects of blindness to sighted students who are
> studying to work with us and I am glad that these students have the
> chance to visit our school a few times a year, do their observations
> there and hold a few lessons themselves. Braille and cane mobility are
> never taught to them at all and orientation and mobility doesn't even
> exist as a choice of study, but I was informed that they are making
> braille courses mendatory at the university now. As soon as I found
> out about this, I knew that my next task was to somehow do something
> to help them, so I started looking up for noncopyright materials to
> braille for them and asking editors of magazines and articles to allow
> me to braille their materials, hoping that this will help those
> students learn and enjoy reading braille and learn lots more about
> different aspects of blindness and what life is like for us. I am
> brailling everything by hand with my Perkins brailler, because even if
> I find magazines I can pass onto them, they are all in grade two, so I
> am making everything in grade one for them. If anyone else would like
> to help me do this, has their articles or knows of good articles and
> people that would be willing to share theirs with those students or
> could even provide me with special education course or other materials
> in print, audio or electronic format that could help them in their
> learning, feel free to email me at:
>  adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com
>  so we can talk about it. We would all appreciate your help.
>
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
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