[stylist] Braille for youth or adult contests - info & thought

[The Crowd]

I think the kids who write the braille should have a braille prize, that 
would exclude those who only electronically do it, but it will also 
encoureage.

Atty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:51 AM
Subject: [stylist] Braille for youth or adult contests - info & thought


> Miss Lynda and young Master Vejas and others:
>
>
> Nope, Braille is only for the youth group. And someday we need to also
> include those youth who do not do Braille or do not wish the extra work of
> producing two versions of their work. In fact, it is a fairly understood
> real life happening, that the blind person who learns Braille and advances
> on to an electronic notetaker and or gets a Braille display to be used 
> with
> their computer, they stop doing much production of hard-copy materials, 
> and
> if they do choose to whip up a hard-copy version of something, they go to 
> a
> Braille embosser and crank it out. And this story, is an age old response 
> to
> efficiency ---  tell me, do you or any sighted writer that you know, today
> hand-write out your work for submission to a contest or publisher?
>
> Yet, don't mistake this- we in the NFB, and specifically the Writers'
> Division do want to promote Braille literacy and so we set up the rules 
> for
> our youth contest to get at this goal. But alas, by this Braille
> requirement, we are excluding all other youth (the majority) from the 
> chance
> to work at writing for our contest. Sometime soon, we need to expand our
> youth contest to include the non-Braille users, too.
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
> Personal Website-
> Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment
> http//www.thoughtprovoker.info
> NFB Writers' Division, president
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net
> Chair of the NFB Communications Committee
>
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