[blindkid] FW: [Pibe-division] Learning Nemeth First

[Carrie Gilmer]

  _____  

From: pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Denise M.
Robinson
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:01 PM
To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List
Subject: [Pibe-division] Learning Nemeth First

 


Learning
<http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/2011/09/learning-nemeth-first.html>
Nemeth First 


A student came to me when she was 16 years old. She had spent years trying
to keep a brain tumor at bay, until one day, she woke and the majority of
her sight was gone. She could no longer do the world visually. She was very
depressed at first because she really wanted to graduate with her class and
it was only a couple years away. But her hopelessness quickly transitioned
into hope as she learned her blind skills. 

She flew on the technology but resisted braille. She loved math though and
was clearly unsure how to do it blind. We started with Nemeth code, NOT
braille. She learned Nemeth very quickly and sailed through her math
classes. Little did she know, she was learning the Braille code along with
her Nemeth. When I finally got her to try a Braille book, she was a bit
surprised how well she read the book. 

Yes, I taught her braille going through the back door of ease versus the
front door of resistance. Once a child gets something in their head of
whether they will or will not do something, it is not worth the fight. As
teachers, we need to bring them along on the journey by showing them how
they can do their favorite things. Then the child discovers that they
inadvertently learned what you wanted them to learn in the first place.

 

       Denise 

 

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor

Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training

509-674-1853     <mailto:deniserob at gmail.com>  deniserob at gmail.com

 

http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/

 

-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: ATT00178.txt
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindkid_nfbnet.org/attachments/20110923/d06b15ca/attachment.txt>