[access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

  • From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:09:21 +0100

Yes, exactly. Dot-to-dot is a self teach course in uncontracted braille
which has its instructions on a CD that you can use in a talking book player
or on a PC and contains cards and all sorts of other things. It's a
brilliant course I think and only costs £35. 

Cheers
Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Damon Rose
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:53 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

Dunno if it's worth me saying that, when I went blind, I found that
using playing cards was a particularly fruitful way of a) learning some
braille and b) building up sensitivity and spacial awareness of the dots
on the pads of my fingers. 

It took me months to suss the difference between an S and a T which have
just one dot difference ... But the dot in question is right in the
middle and after another dot so I found it difficult to detect two in
the middle part of my finger. 



 

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dave Taylor
Sent: 16 June 2010 10:39
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

Unfortunately it is not easy to learn to read braille by touch. Learning
the actual letters is not too difficult, but it takes an awful lot of
practice to learn. Of those who do not manage to learn braille, the most
common reason is that they can't feel the dots, and this is most often
because they have not been taught properly. It is really important to
follow a proper course since even before you start learning the letters,
you are learning to use your fingers to track along lines etc. This is
proven to help a lot of people. It is much more important for people who
lose their sight later than for people born blind, as those born blind
are already used to receiving a lot of information by touch, and they
use the visual cortex for this. People losing their sight have a lot of
extra learning to do. It takes the majority of people several months to
learn uncontracted braille and a couple of years to learn contracted
braille, but support and courses are there and people who do learn
braille value it very highly. The motto is little and often and never
give up!

Cheers
Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerald Locke
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:01 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

Hi,

Easy to teach yourself Braille as follows:
Braille is composed out of six dots in two columns containing three
dots.
Dot 1 is atop the first column followed by dots 2 and three. Dot four
tops the second column followed by dots five and six.
The first ten letters of the Braille alphabet are composed from dots 1,
2, 4, and five as follows:
A is just dot 1, B dots 1 and 2, C dots 1 and 4, D dots 1, 4, and 5. E
dots
1 and 5, F dots 1, 2, and 4, G dots 1, 2, 4, 5, ,H dots 1, 2, and5, I
dots 2 and 4, J dots2, 4, and 5.
If , using coins or buttons, or better still, a Perkins Brailler, the
first ten letters are composed as above in a straight line, then by
adding dot 3 to the above patterns, gives the second ten letters of the
Braille alphavet:e,g, K is dots 1 and 3, L dots 1, 2, and three.
The last six letters are composed by adding dot six to the second ten
Braille letters, except for the W as there is no W in French.
Example:
U is dots 1, 3, and six, V is dots 1, 2, 3, and6, W is dots 2, 4, 5, and
6. 
X is dots 1, 3, 4, and six, Y is dots 1, 3, 4, 5, and six, Z is dots 1,
3, 5, and six.
As seen, W does not follow the same pattern as the rest!
    If your friend can beg, borrow, or . . . a Perkins Brailler,
touching the dot patterns will aid the learning of the touch for
reading.

Kind regards,

Gerry. 

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