[blindkid] transcribing time

[Sally Thomas]

You might want to contact your Educational Service Center.  Ours has 
braillists who do contract work so they may have an idea about time/page of 
certain kinds of work.  Also, putting in a good word with the braillist's 
boss might be a nice gesture too.

Sally Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joy Orton" <ortonsmom at gmail.com>
To: <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 4:46 PM
Subject: [blindkid] transcribing time


> Dear friends,
> Where can I find an estimate of the time it takes to transcribe materials 
> to
> braille? Is it even possible to estimate the time needed for worksheets 
> for
> a third grader?
> My child comes home with worksheets for math with lots of clocks,
> thermometers, money, graphs, and more. Our transcriber in the district 
> does
> a great job on them.
>
> We have an awesome transcriptionist who does a lot of work on her own 
> time,
> and I think the district ought to pay her for it. But I don't want to 
> sound
> like I am saying she can't get her job done in the time allotted. She 
> works
> hard and well. I want the district to realize they probably need to pay
> overtime or hire a second person to cover all the materials that she has 
> to
> do.
>
> Has anyone had this issue? How did you deal with it?
> Joy Orton
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