[blindkid] "I like it"

[Dr. Denise M Robinson]

Penny,
I think your daughter needs to suggest to the teacher to teach the
reluctant child. A mentor has always proven to really inspire and move a
child in ideas. Your daughter could read for her and she could see how
wonderful it could be, then teach some beginning tricks to get her
going--or just read with her...IF she only learned and practiced  braille
too--she could read faster....
Denise

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Albert J Rizzi <albert at myblindspot.org>wrote:

> Seems like the both of you are getting a lot out of braille, and thanks to
> that little girl who would not give up. what a fantastic feeling you gave
> to
> me. thankyou.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Penny Duffy
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 8:35 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)
> Subject: [blindkid] "I like it"
>
> Today my 8 year old daughter and I had a discussion about braille.  We were
> talking about how some kids don't get braille even when it could help them.
>  She was than told me about one of her friends (who she has O&M with
> sometimes) hates braille.  She told me she really wishes her friend would
> give it more of a try.  She than said. "Braille... I like it."  I realize
> as I type out those words that it doesn't come across how positive and
> happy she was when she said those words.  To say the past year and half has
> been hard would be an understatement.  My daughter becoming blind has been
> such a journey the past 18 months.  It was so hard  dealing with her
> frustrations, impatience and resistance.  She was angry that she had to do
> things differently than her classmates.  She was angry that she had to
> learn to do things differently.  I will simply horrible at times.    Today
> I know it all was worth it. She is reading so well.  She skills are getting
> better by the day.  She get it.  She knows that being a braille reader
> makes her  a reader and she likes being a reader.
>
> I am going to say something the first time I heard it seemed shocking to me
> and now I believe it .  "Braille isn't hard to learn."  Now helping your
> 6-7 year old strong willed daughter learn to read while she is adjusting to
> vision loss was challenging.  We survived and we are both better for it.
> --
> --Penny
> ----------
> A lucky mother to two amazing children - visionfora.blogspot.com
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 Denise

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