[optacon-l] Re: Note about Blindsight from Nancy Tavis
- From: "Fran" <spider03@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:21:30 +0100
Jim,
thanks for sharing! This is so exciting. I had read part of her book and
what she did is amazing. A movie about her experience will certainly have to
feature the optacon, which may be an incredible boost to raise awareness on
this miraculous device!
Thanks again
Fran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bliss" <jim@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:34 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Note about Blindsight from Nancy Tavis
>I received the following note from Nancy Tavis that I thought you might be
> interested in.
>
> Jim Bliss
>
> March 11, 2008
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> 1 have been thinking of you and Joan so much recently. I've had the most
> exciting experience to tell to you.
>
> Sabriye Tenberkin spoke at the Carroll Center recently and during the talk
> she mentioned using the OPTACON to study the Tibetan language, history and
> culture. She lost her sight when she was 12 years old and eventually was
> sent from Germany to the Overbrook School where she learned to use the
> OPTACON. Sabriye said that the OPTACON was especially important to her
> when
> she was developing Braille for the Tibetan language. This eventually led
> to
> the opening of the BRAILLE WITHOUT BORDERS School.
>
> Copied from the Website w-ww.braillewithoutborders.org and also mentioned
> in
> her talk at the Carroll Center: "Sabriye studied Central Asian Studies at
> Bonn University. In addition to Mongolian and modern Chinese, she studied
> modern and classical Tibetan in combination with sociology and philosophy.
> As no blind student had ever before ventured to enroll in these kind of
> studies, she could not fall back on any experiences of anyone else so had
> to
> develop her own methods to come to terms with her course of studies. It
> was
> thus that a Tibetan script for the blind was developed".
>
> (In the talk at the Carroll Center she said that the OPTACON was the only
> way she could take those courses and see the Tibetan characters).
>
> After her talk I told her that I was one of the original OPTACON teachers.
> She jumped up and hugged me and said "you are my hero". I was stunned and
> told her about you. She said for me to tell you "I love him because none
> of
> this would have been possible without the OPTACON". Of course Joan would
> also be "her real hero" because she was the first OPTACON teacher.
>
> As you can see from the enclosed information that Sabriye was nominated
> for
> the Nobel Peace Prize and won two Mother Theresa Awards among many other
> awards.
>
> She, the climbers and the Producer of the movie, BlindSight, are in
> America
> promoting the movie which opened in Boston last night, March 10.
>
>
>
> When we talked about the OPTACON, Sabriye mentioned that she used her
> OPTACON until all the parts she could get were gone.
>
> The Director of the Tech Center at the Carroll Center, Brian Charlson's
> wife
> Kim Charlson, Director of the Talking Book Library at Perkins, continues
> to
> use an OPTACON.
>
> The OPTACON is still influencing lives all over the world, 36 years later
> and will continue because BRAILLE WITHOUT BORDERS is expected to open
> schools in India next and then in other developing countries.
>
> What an impact you and the OPTACON continue to have on lives throughout
> the
> world. (see attached bio of the climbers)
>
> These young people, who were hidden away because in Tibet blindness was a
> terrible stigma on the family, are now the support of their family.
>
> The movie opens in SF March 28t". I think that Sabriye attends the
> openings.
> It is going to DVD as well.
>
> .
>
>
>
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