[rehab] Braille Basics

Tue Nov 8 14:55:41 UTC 2011

You are welcome.  I do really like that book because it doesn't have what they call grade 1.5.  She does not use words that would have contractions you did not yet learn.

Sahar Husseini, CVRCB, MSW

Orientation Counselor

(402) 471-8144

-----Original Message-----
From: rehab-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:rehab-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tami Kinney
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:56 PM
To: Rehabilitation Counselor Mailing List
Subject: Re: [rehab] Braille Basics

Oh, that is wonderful! I just really like the way she goes about presenting the letters and symbols, working them into words and then sentences as each lesson builds on the last. Very nice and it felt more like I was just going along learning instead of pushing myself through a meat grinder trying to learn... So since that is what is used in the living skills program by our braille literacy instructor here, I can't quite fathom why so many people around here are struggling through the Hadley program because their VRC from the same agency has told them that is all there is... The Hadley program no doubt works for many braille learners, but not for all. For me, it was the delay for having to wait for mail to come and goe between lessons... And I prefer just getting on to reading as quickly as possible. /smile/

Anyway, I will check out the nemeth and computer texts you mentioned, as well. I am a total math geek, so waiting for my hands and wrists to heal so I could read and type braille electronically was bad enough. I recently discovered that I can use a slate and stylus a bit more freely and without injury than I could not that long ago. So I *must* do math. 
You know how math geeks are. /grin/

Thanks again!

Tami

On 11/07/2011 06:29 AM, Husseini, Sahar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The author's name is Jolene Boshart.  Her number is (402) 483-5088.  She updated the book recently, and the rules are now with each lesson.  It is the book we have been using in Nebraska for the last 15 years or so.  She does not, however, have a Nemeth curriculum; however, I do know the NLS has a five-volume and a 1-volume book on that.  I can't make heads or tails of it, only because I'm math-challenged.  *smile*  Someone who isn't math challenged, I'm sure, would be able to tackle these books and understand their meaning.
>
> Sahar Husseini, CVRCB, MSW
>
> Orientation Counselor
>
> (402) 471-8144
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rehab-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:rehab-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Tami Kinney
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 5:30 PM
> To: rehab at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [rehab] Braille Basics
>
> 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,
>
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