Re: Survey including children needs
- From: Mike Freeman <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:24:43 -0400 (EDT)
Fran:
I may get flamed for this one, but ...
I think we should limit the survey to adults for the moment. I say this
for ideological reasons. While some children to extremely well with the
Optacon, school districts often found it all-too-easy to use the
availability of the Optacon as an excuse not to provide adequate braille
instruction to blind students. TeleSensory played into this abomination
by implying without saying it that the Optacon might make the need for
braille moot. I believe both organizations of the blind in this country
challenged this silliness and TeleSensory backed off.
Whatever the history, there are only so many hours in a day and I
believe we cannot afford the luxury of pushing the Optacon as a useful
device for children unless and until we are assured that they are
getting good braille instruction. The two modalities complement each
other.
<<FIRE-PROOF SUIT ON>>
Mike Freeman
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Francesca Diodati wrote:
> Hi Catherine and all,
> I'm going to post the survey to a list I'm on, however I realized the
> questions seem to be directed specifically to blind adults, living
> independently, working etc. Since the list where I'm about to post also
> comprises many parents of blind children, I'm not sure if the survey is
> appropriate for them. I was about to add to the introduction that parents of
> blind children are welcome to reply to the applicable items only and provide
> any info on topics we haven't covered regarding the needs of their child. Is
> that OK or should we add items specifically for kids, or should we rewrite
> the existing items?
>
> Thanks for any feedback!
>
> Fran
>
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