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

  • From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:30:11 +0100

I have no idea. I know it is something they really want to happen, and are
trying to get done, but no more than that.



-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Iain Lackie
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:57 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

When can we expect to see the return of Braille Scrabble?

Iain

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From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:39 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

>
> Hi
> Yes, the braillette board was fantastic but they are now either
> discontinued or have very few in stock and will be discontinued when sold
> out. Sales were extremely low and it was going to cost much more to get 
> more
> made.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of
> Peter Beasley
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 1:31 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend
>
> Does RNIB still sell the Braillette board? Surely this is a good way to 
> get
> people used to feeling the letters.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:52 AM
> 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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