Donna.Siren@p19.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Donna Siren) (06/25/91)
Index Number: 16395 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] BH> to write the hyphenated part of my name after I was married. I did not BH> learn to write Beth Hatch until I was in high school, I think I should have BH> learned this skill, as well as writing the whole alphebet much before that. I know where you're coming from. The one person who should've taught me was the teacher who worked with the blind students in the public school that I went to when I was in seventh and eighth grades. Never once did she ask me if I knew how to sign my name. The people who tried to teach me years later didn't really know how to teach that sort of thing. One friend took a piece of string and glued it to a piece of cardboard in the shape of my signature, but it was terribly fancy and it was too hard for me to follow. I tried to write my name using the shape of the optacon letters, but then I was told that I needed to write it in script, so I gave up. Finally, someone did sit down with me and we worked at it and I was finally able to write my name, not very neatly, a bunch of times. The most legible name was taken and a signature stamp was made and I now use that but I wouldn't have had to go through that hell if I'd been taught when I was still in school by a teacher who had plenty of time to work with me and not by a bunch of people who only had maybe a half an hour. Donna -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!396!5.19!Donna.Siren Internet: Donna.Siren@p19.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org