[rehab] Using Sleep Shades in Chapter and StateAffiliate-SponsoredBraille Classes

[Mary Donahue]

Thanks, Jan.

Mary Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Bailey" <jlb021951 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [rehab] Using Sleep Shades in Chapter and 
StateAffiliate-SponsoredBraille Classes


> Mary:
> I find that when people don't use shades, they automatically get their 
> face down close to the Braille, even if they can't see it, and then they 
> soon have a back ache.
> Jan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mary Donahue" <braille at satx.rr.com>
> To: <napub at nfbnet.org>
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> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 7:57 PM
> Subject: [rehab] Using Sleep Shades in Chapter and State 
> Affiliate-SponsoredBraille Classes
>
>
>> sHello everyone,
>>
>>    Our chapter in San Antonio will be starting a Braille class this 
>> coming Saturday in which I will be the lead instructor, and several 
>> members will be assisting me. Lately, a question came up whether to use 
>> sleep shades. I've studied both _The _McDuffy _Reader and _The _Slate 
>> _Book. I agree with both Jennifer Dunnam and Sharon Monthei that using 
>> sleep shades is a must. Our president, however, seems to think that we 
>> should not make the students wear sleep shades unless students 
>> continuously bend down to look at the Braille. The class planning 
>> committee met by telephone conference earlier, and all of us on the call 
>> agreed we should use sleep shades. (Our president was absent, and 
>> definitely in the minority.)So far, those four students who are coming on 
>> Saturday have some or total vision.
>>
>>    My question is do any of you know of chapters or state affiliates who 
>> have sponsored Braille classes, and have the students worn sleep shades? 
>> Please let me know as soon as possible before this coming Saturday so I 
>> can forward your responses to the other committee members.
>>
>>    Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Mary Donahue, a nervous aspiring Braille teacher
>>
>> "Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."
>> Garrison Keillor
>>
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