Re: remembering my first experiences with the Optacon
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:25:12 -0700
When I was training with my optacon, they had us read this sci fi story.
The sentence was supposed to have read "he took a gun from his pocket."
Unfortunately, the words "he took" were at the end of 1 line, I accidentally
skipped over the correct line, & ended up on the words "a leak". My
instructor & I laughed so hard we had to stop &, well, uh, do just that!
Lol!
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Drake" <pamdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:25 AM
Subject: RE: remembering my first experiences with the Optacon
> Peggy,
>
> That's an absolute scream! I really am sitting here laughing out loud. I
> haven't gotten a good laugh on a list in a long time! What awkward
> experiences we had now and then.
>
> When I went for Optacon teacher training two of us were lucky enough to
> get
> a chance to go to the VA to see the talking Optacon, then being
> field-tested. The person who showed it to us said there had been some
> very
> funny, if embarrassing incidents with the talking Optacon in library
> situations.
>
> Taking a chance here: someone read a book in which a phrase something
> like,
> "I'd give my right nut for a chocolate bar right now," could be clearly
> heard, That's the cleanest one. The other was a simple case of
> mis-reading
> or mis-pronunciation. If anyone wants to know what it was, write me off
> list. <lol>
>
> Pam
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Peggy Kern
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:08 AM
> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: remembering my first experiences with the Optacon
>
> I had Optacon training in January, 1979 at TSI. I was exhausted by the
> end
> of the first day, after six hours of training my fingers to recognize
> print
> letters and numbers, etc., but every evening in the Flamingo Hotel, or
> whatever it was called, I would sit down with the Optacon and read all
> evening long. I was absolutely hooked. There were three other students
> in
> my class, one of whom might be on this list. (Milton Ota, are you out
> there?) We also had a guy from Egypt learning to read in his native
> language, and another lady, Mary Wimberly or something like that. Milton
> and I spent the weekend playing with TSI's Game Center, that is, when I
> wasn't barricaded in my room reading. One funny memory I have is of going
> to a bookstore with one of the instructors, I believe it was Bonnie Skanse
> (I probably slaughtered her last name). Anyway, she was showing me how
> the
> slipcovers on books give information about the books. We were looking at
> a
> book by Ann Landers, and I was reading the cover aloud: "What is your
> opinion of abortion? What is your opinion of drugs? What do you think of
> "
>
> and there was a big long word. I, being a good little Optacon user,
> started
> to sound it out out loud: "ma-st-ur-ba", and then I realized what the
> word
> was and got totally embarrassed. Fortunately, no one else was around to
> hear. But I still smile to myself at an adult word like that being
> sounded
> out in a first-grade sort of way by me. <grin> Ah, those were the days!
>
> Peggy
>
>
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