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

  • From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 22:38:01 +0100

Heavens!  The man in the moon!  Now, I'd forgotten all about that.  I almost 
learnt to read it too,for fun.  Mind you, I recall that the book I tried to 
read had lines going in alternate directions!  There was a link guiding your 
fingers down to the next line.  I believe they gave that system up around that 
time, so it had less of an oriental flavour to it later, and now I suppose.

You could write Moon to!  I recall some ingenious student invented a Moon 
writer, although I never saw one of those.  If I had, no doubt I would have 
exclaimed, WOW!  As Alistair Cookes grand son did when he saw the typwriter Mr. 
Cooke used.
Ray

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Cretney" <rac@xxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:13 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink


> 
> Just  to come in here for a moment, I somehow have the impression that 
> people are more inclined to encourage older people who lose their sight to 
> learn Moon rather than Braille.  Don't ask me why this is the case as I am 
> fully aware that the amount of material that is published in this format is 
> very sparse indeed to say the best of it.
> 
> I think however that it is in fact somewhat easier to use than Braille and 
> hence easier to learn and to teach.  This may be at least part of the reason 
> for this peculiar practice.
> 
> Tony
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:43 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink
> 
> 
>>
>> I have just received a publication from RNIB (it took a great effort to 
>> get it in Braille) Called Sight Problems: Changing The Way We Think About 
>> Blindness. In this booklet it says:
>> 'there are systems of reading by touch such as Braille. There are 
>> 20,000-25,000 people who use Braille regularly, and many more make use of 
>> Braille labelling on signs, in lifts and on packaging. However, it is 
>> unusual for people losing their sight in later life to learn the system.'
>>
>> This sounds to me almost like damning with faint praise. I am sure that 
>> more people would give Braille a go if they had the opportunity and if the 
>> benefits were emphasised rather more than the difficulties. I am not 
>> really sure at whom this publication is aimed but what it has to say about 
>> Braille doesn't encourage anyone who has lost their sight in later life to 
>> attempt to take it up.
>>
>> Iain.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "James O'Dell" <jamesodell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:45 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Benefits of Braille - for Tink
>>
>>
>>> But the enigma in this case is how to preserve braille at all, if the 
>>> vast majority of blind people are older and don't have the opportunity to 
>>> learn it.
>>>
>>> James
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