[blindkid] Spanish Braille books for kids

[Marianne Denning]

I totally agree that you can learn braille quickly if you only learn
the same alphabet that sighted people learn but I can't read
uncontracted braille near as fast.  I am teaching our exchange student
contracted braille and she loves it.  Her reading speed is increasing
because of the contractions.  She new uncontracted English before she
came to the U.S.

On 1/9/15, Deborah Kent Stein via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>
> It's my understanding that contracted Braille for Spanish isn't much used
> because the twenty or so Spanish-speaking countries have not reached an
> agreement on what code to adopt.  When I taught Braille to students in
> Mexico, I found that they picked it up very quickly, partly because Spanish
>
> is such a phonetic language and partly because all they had to master was
> the alphabet, the symbols for accented letters, and the punctuation and
> numbers.  I taught adults who had never had any form of literacy, and they
> were able to read Braille within two or three months.
>
> Debbie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b&s via blindkid
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 10:05 PM
> To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Spanish Braille books for kids
>
> Marianne,
> Regarding your question about contracted Braille in Spanish, I did some
> snooping around  and found that it does exist (called estenografia or
> braille abreviado). However, I have read that it is not much utilized for
> some reason. I don't know why.
>
> Brandon
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Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or visually impaired
(513) 607-6053