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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Krystal:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It seems in my humble opinion, that you are dealing
with a unique situation. However, you may want to consider embossing Braille
ready files in uncontracted Braille and contracted Braille available via the
Texas school for the blind and visually impaired. You need to go to the website:
<A href="http://www.tsbvi.edu">www.tsbvi.edu</A> you must type in the search box
Braille books. When you get the proper result, you can download a list of
the available books in alphabetical sequence provided in a Microsoft Word
Document. You may also download a Microsoft excel file that lists each
available bookeach author of each book, the reading grade
level, and the particular file you need to download in uncontracted Braille and
contracted Braille. In order to be able to download the books from this school
you must email the webmaster requesting a user name and pass word.
If you like I can email you offlist the above information. The books range from
kindergarten reading to high school.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Another idea is to consider going to public
domain sites and finding books that are on your students grade level. For those
students, who read uncontracted Braille you would need to copy the particular
cbook or some case a particular chapter of a desired book into a Microsoft word
document and translate the file into uncontracted Braille. This is important,
since these books don't have the Braille capital sign dot six or any of the
various punctuation marks in the literary Braille code. For the students who can
read contracted Braille, you can copy the same chapter or book and translate
into contracted Braille. However, understand that all the words from the print
file were be converted into contracted Braille. You may have to introduce the
contractions contained in the particular book or chapter.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Some public domain sites to consider are:
project Gutenberg ; <A
href="http://www.readbookonline.net">www.readbookonline.net</A> and <A
href="http://www.classicreader.com">www.classicreader.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope my ideas at least give you a starting point
from which you can expand on.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sara Rooz</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Blind certified teacher of the blind and
visually impaired in new York city</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>email: <A
href="mailto:sararooz@gmail.com">sararooz@gmail.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>