[blindkid] Braille for Children

[Holly Baker Miller]

Merry-Noelle,
This is FANTASTIC!
I especially love the worksheets under the low vision/sighted peers tab.
 I'm helping with a presentation at Hank's school in a few weeks, will
definitely be using some of these!

Holly

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Merry-Noel Chamberlain <owinm at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
> I just got finished with developing a great new website - through the
> Professional Development Research in Blindness website:
> http://www.pdrib.com/pages/brailkids.php  It's for Teaching Braille to
> Children because teaching Braille to very young children can be challenging
> considering their short attention span. However, it can be successful! This
> site provides some helpful ideas to help parents and teachers make learning
> Braille a positive experience for young children beginning at age three.
> Although this site is targeted towards the very young children it is also
> helpful for older children who may have cognitive delays. This site assists
> with teaching the very basics of pre-Braille and Braille skills. In
> addition, this site will help parents who are new to Braille be able to
> find and/or create activities for their child and will be able to easily
> assist their child with learning Braille providing the parents have a basic
> knowledge of Braille
>  themselves.  This site helps parents get started.  This is a great site
> for beginning teachers, too.
>
> Have fun with Braille!!!
> Merry-Noel Chamberlain
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