[rehab] Braille Basics

[Tami Kinney]

All,

Can anyone give me the name of a braille text for an adult to use for 
self-study in nemeth and computer braille, as well as a place to find it 
and purchase it?

A while back, one of you recommended Braille Basics by, um, that woman 
who wrote it as a good braille curriculum and mentioned that the woman 
who wrote it had also produced a text for Nemeth braille and one for 
computer braille. Yay! I thought. When I can buy the nemeth and computer 
texts I know what to look up onthe internet. So I didn't save the 
message. /lol/ Meanwhile, we did a household reorganization and tossing 
of no longer needed clutter... Did I remember to get the author's name 
before I tossed my copy of Braille Basics on the pile, since I no longer 
need it? Of course not! Besides, I can just do a search on Google...

So I've been doing that and am now back to ask the following:

What is the name of the author of Braille Basics?

Where can I locate this title and author so that I might purchase the 
text for self-study?

I would really love any other resources for braille literacy for adults. 
I would like to provide a list of such resources on the web. Also, I am 
concocting an evil plan as to how to get curricular into the hands of 
blind adults here in Oregon... Our braille literacy guy here is pretty 
great, and he uses Braille Basics, which is how I ended up using it for 
self-study. It's just that getting through the not-so-great layers in 
the agency to get information or even lessons from him does seem to be 
fraught with peril. Sigh. I'm tired of hearing from people who are 
really struggling with that, then finding that their VR case goes 
nowhere because they're having trouble with braille... To use myself as 
an example, last time I checked, there is no way they are going to waste 
the braille literacy guy's time on a speed test for me since I refuse to 
learn braille. Naturally, since I refuse to learn braille, they siply 
cannot justify procurement of any braille reading or production tools I 
need to continue (now to get back into) my career.When I left off my 
career due to absolutely positively needing braille, all I needed was 
information about braille displays plus an onsite evaluation, so their 
current claim that I am just to expensive for them doesn't really hold 
water. Also, the job market in my field crashed hard here, so now that I 
could really use the equipment myself so I can pick up freelance 
opportunities, they're really bent out of shape. Well, they were, last 
time I requested a low-cost item for a contract I'd picked up.  /lol/ 
Which was a current version of JAWS... Would you believe the problem of 
my refusal to read braille somehow came into their foot dragging on that 
until the project had to move on without me?

Anyway, since I keep hearing of others with similar issues on the 
subject of braille and how the lack of training and study materials or 
anything else is then used against them in their VR case, I thought I'd 
start finding out what adult curricula are out there and how to get 
them, then see about getting people together to work together on 
learning braille.

Thanks!

Tami,