Re: Survey including children needs
- From: "Francesca Diodati" <mdiodat@xxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:50:07 +0200
Hi Mike, you have your fire-proof suit on? LOL.
No need for it :-), although I kind of disagree with you...I don't think
braille should have priority over the optacon at all. I'm probably an
exception to the rule as I learned the optacon many years before I learned
braille. I'm perfectly OK with it but I won't say this is necessarily the
best choice for all blind children. However I know blind kids my age often
learned the optacon and braille at the same time, and they were able to
enjoy the advantages of both.
Take care
Fran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: Survey including children needs
> 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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