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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Conchita,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Does your student understand the purpose of braille - That it carries a message? What sort of role modelling is she getting? Have you tried using hand-under-hand (hers on yours) while you read her a story (even if you are actually reading from the print, run your fingers over the braille using good technique).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What does she like doing? Treasure hunts? Family corner? I’d just make braille everywhere, like on the toy stove, above the coat hooks, by all the classroom resources…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You could try other fine tactile activities – I like filling a container with uncooked rice or beans and hiding small pieces of candy in it for the student to find (and then eat as the reward); or threading small beads of different shapes onto a string to make a necklace; creating things with wiki-stix, play-dough, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Teach the braille symbols using an egg box, muffin pan or marble block/swing cell. Let her organise the balls, and you copy (and tell her what she’s made), then get her to imitate what you make, starting with the first letter of her first name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have a student who picks off braille labels and picks at piaf images. We made her a ‘picking board’ – a piece of cardboard with lots of little things glued to it, that she is allowed to pick off, if she feels the urge to pick! She gets rewarded at the end of the day if certain ‘precious’ things are still intact.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>All the best, and let us know how you get on </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Amanda <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(Resource Teacher: Vision, Whanganui, New Zealand)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> PIBE-Division [mailto:pibe-division-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Conchita Hernandez Legorreta via PIBE-Division<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 13 January 2016 1:53 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> pibe-division@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Conchita Hernandez Legorreta<br><b>Subject:</b> [Pibe-division] Student that tears everything<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I wanted to reach out and get some suggestions on a student. This student is in kindergarten and is a braille reader, almost completely blind. She has a braille alphabet on her desk and other manipulative in the classroom. We are running up against the problem that she end ups tearing everything she comes into contact with. This becomes hard to create things for her or have her focus on tasks. Any suggestions? <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Conchita Hernandez Legorreta <span style='font-size:9.5pt'>M.A.T.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Teacher of Blind Students </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Help me reach my goal to work with a school for the blind in Mexico! Check out my Go Fund Me Page. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#D10A0A'><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/6a4a86ns" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/6a4a86ns</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>