[blindkid] Do I need to keep old schoolwork?

Wed May 25 20:11:07 UTC 2016

Be loud and clear and consistent - your son needs technology instruction from a TVI.  
One of my hugest pet peeves is when technology is purchased for students (and you know BVI technology is NOT cheap) and everyone thinks that is the end of the technology questions and issues.
Technology will sit in the box, and not make any difference in anyone's life, if students are not taught how to use it!
This takes TIME!  But I believe it is life changing.

Lori Mattick
TVI/Transition Teacher
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
lmattick at csdb.org

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Subject: Re: [blindkid] Do I need to keep old schoolwork?

Lori,
Thanks for the email idea.
Unfortunately, Caleb has not yet been taught how to use the Braille note to do that. Nor has he been taught to download books on it. If I sound a little  frustrated, I am. He has a district purchased Braille note that he uses at school; we also purchased one for him to use at home.
I'm not sure what to do ?!?

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> On May 25, 2016, at 11:23 AM, Lori Mattick via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi;
> You could have your son use his braille note to email you his work.  You will open it up on your computer and it will be in print!  You could just then attach/staple it to his hard copy braille so that he can have memories and work that he can access and you can understand it, too!  It think it is important to keep both a hard copy and print copy of the things you have decided to save.
> 
> 
> Lori Mattick
> TVI/Transition Teacher
> Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind lmattick at csdb.org
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> Hyndman via blindkid
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> 
> Carol,
> I feel like I know you because I have read do much of what you have written!
> Is there an easy way to convert what Caleb has Brailled into print? That would help me know what to save!
> He is in 3rd grade and does most of his "writing" on his Braille note.  
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 25, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Carol Castellano via blindkid <blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> We were immersed in a battle with the school district when our 
>> daughter was in first grade, so we needed to keep her work as proof 
>> of what she could do.  If we had not had to do that, I think I would 
>> have kept my favorites--a few stories, reports, tests she aced, that sort of thing.
>> 
>> Carol
>> 
>> Carol Castellano
>> Parents of Blind Children-NJ
>> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
>> 973-377-0976
>> carol_castellano at verizon.net
>> www.blindchildren.org
>> www.nopbc.org
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>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Steve Hyndman via blindkid < 
>> blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Roanna, this is a question I often have. Because we are still trying 
>>> to figure out how to convert his Braille work to print (so I can 
>>> read what it says), we have stacks of Brailled papers. I'd like to 
>>> keep - for Caleb's Memory Box - any "special" pieces of writing, but 
>>> I'm still trying to figure out how to know which ones to keep?!?
>>> Thanks for letting me jump into this conversation!
>>> Cynda Hyndman
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>>> On May 25, 2016, at 8:26 AM, Roanna Bacchus via blindkid <
>>>> blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Allison there is no reason to keep it.  Since he will be going 
>>>> into
>>> first grade you should keep the work he will be doing then.
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