[BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC

Tue Jan 14 22:54:43 UTC 2020

Yes I’m aware. I just know how bad these services can be in my area!  So
I’m trying to prepare my kids as much as I can!  :)

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:14 PM Jess Trask via BlindKid <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Traci,
> Your kids will have access to disabled students services at most any
> college that they will attend. And some help assistive technology special
> on staff will access what they need. Or their Vocational Rehabilitation
> Counselor who can also have an accesstive technology assessment done  to
> see what will help them in college.The counselor would be able to share
> that with the disabled student office at the college.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 14, 2020, at 13:48, Traci W via BlindKid <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > So what is the solution when kids go to college and no longer have the
> > braille display?  Shouldn't kids move to full Word/Math combo if
> possible?
> >
> > I'm still figuring this out for my kids - once I am done with my O&M
> > studies (this semester) - I can concentrate on this more fully - I know
> we
> > have touched on it a couple times in previous conversations - I didn't
> > realize the kids were using braille displays though, like you mentioned
> > above.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Traci Wilkerson
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:39 PM Dr Denise M Robinson via BlindKid <
> >> blindkid at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Linda
> >> All of our blind students do all their math work in word-- we do have a
> few
> >> who have difficulties with math concepts so will outputs math work as
> >> needed so we gauge toward cognitive level..
> >>
> >> We have been teachingthis way for around 18 years. They read from a
> Nemeth
> >> code math book so the braille is under their fingers and then they
> output
> >> it in word using a braille display. Then of course email it to their
> >> teachers just like their peers.
> >> You can do UEB math or Nemeth code math depending on what they have
> learned
> >> on a good braille display.  The majority of people are still using
> Nemeth
> >> code. Most of our students use the focus 40.
> >> Hope this helps
> >>
> >> * Dr Denise M Robinson*
> >>
> >> *Denise M Robinson, TVI, PhD*
> >>
> >> Specialist-Technology/Blind Skills | Teacher of the Blind and Visually
> >> Impaired
> >> 425-220-6935 | www.yourtechvision.com
> >> *Life* isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning
> to
> >> *dance* in the rain!
> >>
> >> [image: TechVision Logo]
> >> “Helping the visually impaired see their world changed through
> technology”
> >> "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was
> done."
> >> --Helen Keller
> >> "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb
> a
> >> tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
> >>    ~Albert Einstein
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:46 PM marianne via BlindKid <
> >> blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yes, it is possible. You can check out yourtechvision.com for some
> >> Youtube
> >>> videos that may help you understand. The Braille display will output
> UEB
> >>> math symbols but they can definitely learn to recognize those very
> >>> quickly.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: BlindKid <blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
> >>> Coccovizzo,Linda A
> >>> via BlindKid
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:14 PM
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> >>> (blindkid at nfbnet.org) <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> >>> Cc: Coccovizzo,Linda A <Linda.Coccovizzo at MCCKC.EDU>
> >>> Subject: [BlindKid] Math Homework on the PC
> >>>
> >>> I apologize for those of you who have already seen this question come
> >>> across
> >>> the FB group. I'm just picking as many brains as I can right now.
> >>>
> >>> At work at the community college, I do a lot with transcribing math
> into
> >>> braille for our blind students. I don't know how they are turning their
> >>> work
> >>> in, because we have never, or at least not recently, received their
> math
> >>> homework to put into print for their professors. My girls are doing
> their
> >>> math homework on a braille writer. Is it possible for them to use a
> >> braille
> >>> display with a PC, to do their math, and turn it in with the rest of
> >> their
> >>> peers? There may be braille notetakers in their future for this, but
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/s+in+their+future+for+this,+but?entry=gmail&source=g>
> for
> >>> the
> >>> time being, I would like to know if, and how it can be done on the PC.
> >>>
> >>> Linda Coccovizzo
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