Re: Two Weeks of Surveys, update Pril 30, 2006

From: "Teresa Arroyo" <tarroyo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 11:08:21 -0400

Hi Francesca,

Oh no, you are not the only one. I love reading and I have read long books 
like War  and peace.Actualy, my motivation  to  start  learning the  Optacon 
was reading. I started to use it for studies later on, and now I do so for 
work also.

You se? you are not alone lol.

Teresa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francesca Diodati" <mdiodat@xxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Two Weeks of Surveys, update Pril 30, 2006


> This is all very interesting, Catherine! Thanks so much again for doing 
> this
>
> As for the fact on print, I think most respondants know what it looks like
> because there are more blind adults who lost their sight later in life 
> than
> people blind from birth. But I assure you that if you only asked people
> blind from birth, to which I belong, you'd find that a very small 
> percentage
> knows what print looks like, and some aren't even taught to sign their 
> name.
> I guess that the tendency is changing from a more print-oriented teaching 
> in
> the past, to a more braille and computer oriented teaching nowadays. I 
> began
> school in 1977 and in first grade I only wrote by hand, even though I had 
> no
> sight. In second grade I started using a typewriter, and that was my only
> way of writing in school up to college, till computers came into the
> picture. I was only taught braille at 10 and occasionally had some 
> textboks
> brailled for certain subjects like foreign languages, but I never used it 
> to
> write anything in my life. In fact I don't think I can say I can write
> braille.
>
> About the fact on reading novels, I do read novels with the 
> optacon...Maybe
> I'm the only one! LOL
>
> Thanks again
>
> Fran
>
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