[Pibe-division] Seeking Recommendations of, or Actual Physical Copies of Old School Spelling Books

[Roanna Bacchus]

Hi Heather thanks for your message. Try Seedlings and see if they have any such braille books available.

On Mar 30, 2018 6:52 PM, Heather Bird via PIBE-Division <pibe-division at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello. I am temporarily home schooling my blind son to try and mitigate some behavioral issues he is having in public, mainstream school, due to being with or ahead of his peers academically, but well behind them in Braille skills. I am seeking spelling books, in Braille that are of the sort that aren’t used as much in schools anymore, where the series is intended for use in grades K through 5 or 1 through 6, where each grade has its own book, and each book is made up of lessons, where 20 to 30 words with a similar spelling rule are introduced, reinforced with a half a dozen activities, and there are maybe 30 or more lessons in the book. My dearest hope is that a TVI or a parent of a blind child, or a school district might have a few boxes of volumes from one series just sitting unloved and unwanted in the basement, attic, or shed, that I could pay to have shipped to me, or maybe they could be sent Free Matter for the Blind? If no one has such sitting around, does anyone have a good source? I already tried the Talking Book and Braille Library in Albany NY, the Andrew Highskell Talking Book and Braille Library in NYC, the Perkins School for the Blind, The American Printing House for the Blind, and National Braille Press. Failing that, a recommendation of a good series to seek out in print in a used text book store, that I can use to develop and Braille my own work sheets would be helpful.
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> Thanks so much for any guidance you can provide.
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> PS, super short intro,
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> Heather Bird,
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> President, National Federation of the Blind of New York, Rochester Chapter,
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> Co-Organizer, Blind Parents of New York,
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> Social Work student and former Elementary Education student,
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> Braille Monitor Contributor,
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> Heather Bird
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> "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
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