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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Carlton, I can understand your frustration. And your TVI should know about Bookshare and how to use it (as well as how to look for books from NLS etc). However, you should know that Bookshare is not perfect by any means. When I use it to produce a well-formatted, embossed copy of a book, I often have to spend hours going through the text, even today (MacBeth)! It can be tedious. With an easy book, it might even be faster to start from scratch rather than using the file (depends on the book, of course). Especially for young children, I think the quality issue is a very important one. <BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Carlton Anne Cook Walker <carltonwalker@gmail.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>Professionals in Blindness Education Division List <pibe-division@nfbnet.org><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:43:37 -0400<BR>
<B>To: </B><ksims@opsb.net>, <Pibe-division@nfbnet.org><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>[Pibe-division] Rewriting the book<BR>
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Kristin,<BR>
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I wish this were the case. Currently, even though she doesn't know every contraction, all of Anna Catherine's books are fully contracted. (I support and actually pushed for this last year. As a result, she has really advanced in her contraction knowledge -- using about 80% of them with proficiency now.)<BR>
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Thus, even though there might have been a reason to do this for a child using uncontracted or "partially contracted" braille, that is not the case here.<BR>
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So, can I assume that the teacher simply did not bother looking for the book in BookShare. Thus, it appears that she spent one week of her time, spent one week of the aide's time, and kept Anna Catherine from having the entire book for 6 days longer than her classmates (for an assignment that needed to be completed in 7 days) for no good reason.<BR>
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We have an IEP meeting on Friday, and I want to know if I will have egg on my face by bringing up this matter? I don't want to embarrass the TVI, but she has the administration wrapped around her little finger regarding "all the time" she spends on preparing materials for Anna Catherine. While I don't doubt that she's spending this time, it appears that the time is being spent foolishly. It seems she is working hard rather than working intelligently. <BR>
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If there was no good reason for all of these extra hours to be spent -- and for withholding the entire text from my daughter until the assignment was almost over -- I want to say so at the IEP meeting. It appears to me that Anna Catherine is suffering as a result of the TVI's lack of skills/knowledge. Something has to give.<BR>
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