[rehab] Using Sleep Shades in Chapter and State Affiliate-Sponsored Braille Classes

[Mary Donahue]

Thanks, Nancy.

Mary Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nancy coffman" <nancylc at sprynet.com>
To: "Rehabilitation Counselor Mailing List" <rehab at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [rehab] Using Sleep Shades in Chapter and State 
Affiliate-Sponsored Braille Classes


> If you have people who refuse to wear shades, an option is. To turn the 
> lights off. Shades work far better.
>
> nancy coffman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Donahue <braille at satx.rr.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 7:57 PM
> To: napub at nfbnet.org
> Cc: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children) 
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> Subject: [rehab] Using Sleep Shades in Chapter and State 
> Affiliate-Sponsored Braille 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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