[stylist] Braille really is beautiful

Fri Mar 27 03:52:50 UTC 2009

If you get stubborn, like me, you can do it in a short period of time. It took me six months or less, but I would go home from a braille lesson and practice, practice, practice! LOL!

Alan Wheeler
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 09:30
Subject: Re: [stylist] Braille really is beautiful

> Angela,  I could be that lady.  When I first suffered vision loss a handicap 
> specialist at SUNY Buffalo strongly advised against learning braille.  He 
> claimed that braille was too bulky and useless.  He claimed that everything 
> I needed was on tape at the time.  Obviously he was wrong.  Learning braille 
> is on my to do list now.  Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
> To: "'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:00 PM
> Subject: [stylist] Braille really is beautiful
> 
> 
>>I grew up with  a lady, a couple of years older than myself, who had a good
>> bit of usable vision. She refused to learn Braille as a kid, preferring 
>> the
>> "Normality" of reading print despite compromising her ability to do work
>> efficiently. Now she is older and wiser, and wishes fervently she had
>> learned Braille. I gave her the print portion of one of those NFB 
>> membership
>> packets, which is evidently in large print. She can not read it except 
>> when
>> the light is ideal, and then she reads very slowly. It's a sad situation.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Nikki B.
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:55 PM
>> To: 'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Schools run by blind people
>>
>> HI Helene and all,
>>
>> I'll just put my 2 cents in here. As someone who grew up legally blind but
>> still reading print with the help of magnifiers, glasses and such, I do 
>> wish
>> I had learned braille as a kid. I did learn it at 32 years of age and it 
>> was
>> not hard but I am not a very fast reader and I am much too dependent on my
>> eyes even though now I have much less vision than I used to. Letting go of
>> using my vision is a constant struggle. Learning more non-visual 
>> techniques
>> (including braille) as a kid would have helped I think. Of course, my
>> hindsight is almost 20/20. (grin)
>>
>> Nikki B.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of helene ryles
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:28 PM
>> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Schools run by blind people
>>
>> Judith: I agree we should be encouraging ALL low vision and blind kids to
>> learn braille.
>>
>> I've heard that braille reading is easier to pick up when you learn while
>> very young. Do you know the age when braille becomes harder to pick up?
>>
>> Helene
>>
>> On 26/03/2009, Judith Bron <jbron at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>   I've seen nearly blind people read hard copy with the book or paper
>>> next to their nose and can read maybe 10 words a minute on a good day.
>>> I think this is the place where we should be proactive.  Let's define
>>> what "partially sighted" means.  I'm not talking driver's licenses,
>>> but sight skills like reading, sewing and other skills that require
>>> sight.  I'm not talking about the fact that the blind can use adapted
>>> sewing devices, I'm talking about sewing on a button using a regular
>>> needle and thread.  Judith
>>>
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