[access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink

  • From: "Tink Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 22:26:12 +0100

        Can it be argued that one learns to spell more accurately or
construct more gramatical sentences using Braille, than through a computer? 

        In neither case do you shape the letters by hand. It is possible
that digital tools such as spell checkers would offer some advantage for a
computer user, but if we're talking about a learning environment, then I
suspect that use of such tools would be frowned upon, much as taking a
calculator into early maths classes would have been.

        I think possibly a greater argument for children learning Braille is
one of imagination. I'd think that enabling a child to use their own
imagination to fill out the pictures conjured by fairytales in their own
minds, create the voices of characters in their heads and experience first
hand the emotional elements of reading would be more beneficial than getting
it all second hand through listening alone.
  
Tink.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Iain Lackie
Sent: 08 July 2005 19:33
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink

I think that is a major point. Literacy is about writing as well as reading.

Iain.
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From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink


> Well Tink, I must say that's rich coming from you, (smile).  If ever there

> was someone who was eminently adaptable it must be yourself.  Given that 
> you lost your sight a few years ago, it is remarkable how you have taken 
> to access technology.  Guess it helps in your case that you were very IT 
> literate in the first place, but that hardly detracts from your 
> achievement.
>
> I'd say that those who know Braille are far closer to the quickness and 
> simplicity of using pen and paper, which I still do from time to time.
> Ray
>
> Personal emails:  Email me at
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink
>
>
>> Hi Tink
>>
>> I Think one of the greatest concerns of those of us who want to preserve
>> braille is that there is a medium in which young children can become 
>> truly
>> literate.  It is far too easy for education authorities and the rest to 
>> say
>> that braille doesn't matter, that you can do it all with technology, but 
>> I'm
>> really not sure whether many totally blind people would be able to learn 
>> to
>> read and spell with technology that doesn't involve braille.  How are you
>> supposed to understand what a word is?
>>
>> I was very lucky and had full-time braillist support at both primary and
>> secondary school, and I think it was and is invaluable.  Perhaps as the
>> price of refreshable braille comes down (have there been any product
>> launches from Tactile Dynamics yet?) more people will have the 
>> opportunity
>> to see how both braille and technology can have a good future.
>>
>> James
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