[Trainer-Talk] Question about Remote proof reading braille

[Asanda Pavlacka]

I have a potential opportunity to work with a student remotely, helping them perfect their braille writing skills. My cursory understanding is that with the TVI they would normally use the perkins brailler to write. But they do have some electronic device they also are using to write with.

So my suggestion was to have the student type on their electronic braille writing device, send me the brf file, and I could open it up on my end and be able to check their work.

The typical format they had been doing with their sighted V.I. paraprofessional during covid was visually looking at the braille via teamviewer. As a blind person myself, that is out of the question.

It wouldn’t be that much additional work to teach the student to attach files in an email or whatnot, or if personal email sharing is out of the question, I’m wondering what other methods of file sharing would be easy for a young student to reasonably access and use for file sharing? I get the impression they are older elementary age.

Trying to gather some other ideas before speaking further with the case manager.


Thanks,


Asanda