[bookshare-discuss] Re: spelling
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:11:34 -0500
Hi all,
E. there are, as you say, some folks who are blind who spell well. I
believe, after a life's experience, that these folks are visual
learners. No, don't laugh,. I mean this. They visualize the braille
as a pattern a whole pattern in their heads and because of this they
spell well. For many who are blind, however, spelling is a matter of
matching the braille or printed letters to audio sounds. We do not see
the words or think of them as a totality but rather the combination of
letters that make the sounds. We are auditory learners. Many, many
blind people spell phonetically. We hear the word and encode it by
putting the pieces together that represent the sounds that we hear.
I know that my spelling has improved ten thousand percent since I got a
computer and since I have been using the online dictionary I have.
Also, the spell checker is a great help. The problem is that a spell
checker will not catch homonyms. That's why you'll see there, their
and they're in the wrong places.
Not much can be done except to erge people to run their spell checkers
and to ask about the spelling of brand names.
As an asside, spelling of brand names is difficult if you haven't seen
them. I found out only two years ago that Cingular, my phone company,
currently AT&T, is spelled with a C not an S. I had to ask somebody
the other day how to spell Dunkin Donuts. You won't know unless you
ask. I've seen Pack Mate, Packmate and PacMate. I've seen BrailleNote
braillenote and braille note and Braille Note. Some names like
Benetech are easy to remember because they mean something Benetech =
Good Tech or Good Technology.
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
Portal Tutoring
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