[bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille

Again one of the biggest problems is that most of the vision teachers were
trained in the sixties and seventies where it was large print, large print,
and large print.  Today, the founder of the Large Print research is refuting
the reactions to her studies and trying her hardest to get Braille back into
the schools, but.... well.... it is a hard job, and a lot of them are stuck
in her ways.  The University is teaching that using a Learning Media
Assessment you decide regular print, or Braille as the primary and then what
would be secondary.

I was a child who had a CCTV all the way through.  My fasted reading speed
was thirty words a minute.  My auditory is like 240 words a minute.  I can
now read about 100 words a minute in Braille, if I am not nervous or tired,
or stressed.  But I will always read in words, digesting every word unlike
most people who read in phrases and sentences it is just the way I am, and
am learning how to correct it, but it is going to be a hard and long road.

So... we are trying.  I want to teach my students in the best ways possible.

You have to look at it as one student at a time.  That is the only way I can
think of it without burning out.  There are students at my student teaching
placement, I just wanted to take over and start teaching differently, but it
wasn't my place for that.  I was there to learn the good, the great, the bad
and the ugly.  Whichever they may be.

Sigh.  The Blindness  professions are in shambles, and honestly it is going
to take a miracle to pull us out of the pit we are in and are slowly digging
deeper.

Last year there were

5000 openings for TVIs.
10000 for O and M instructors
20000 for Rehabilitation Teachers

And there were drum roll 295 people graduating with some kind of vision
degree or certification in the U.S. do the math.  It isn't working!

At the same time, in my local area, all three TVIs want to retire right
away, one had been teaching 32, one 31 and the other 30 years as TVIs.  And
they all want out, but it is going to happen, as there is no one to take
their place.

Sigh.


Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
rhod3021@xxxxxxxxxxxx


"One glance at a book and you hear
the voice of another person, perhaps
someone dead for 1,000 years. To
read is to voyage through time"

 ~ Carl Sagan

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