Stew.Bowden@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Stew Bowden) (04/25/91)
Index Number: 15184
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Hi Willie: sorry to interrupt, but in an earlier message to you we
were discussing braille and the partially sighted. I remember when I
was in school, the theory at that time was that all partially sighted
kids needed to conserve their sight because they would need it more
as adults. Consequently, "sightsaving" classes sprang up all over the
place. At the school for the blind, we had this teacher who made bibs
out of shopping bags. She put those things around our necks whether
we could see or not, and placed our hands on the braille books which
were under the bags. That was to keep the sighted from reading
braille with their eyes. In the dorms she saw to it that there were
no print books. Boy! you should have seen those sighted guys
straining their eyes in the dorm to read that braille. That is one
reason why many of them ended up poor readers in either medium. Man!
how times have changed.
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Internet: Stew.Bowden@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.orgMargo.Downey@f60.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Margo Downey) (05/03/91)
Index Number: 15286
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Willie, if the individual is exposed to Braille in a positive manner by
someone who is "enamored" with Braille and knows how to use it and teach
it--probably would work. That exposure isn't around much these day, and those
qualifications aren't around as much today. The young child wouldn't be as
resistant if taught Braille positively and efficiently.
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