[access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

  • From: "Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:44:42 +0100

Hi

Yes, and braille displays have clearer dots that people find easier to feel,
and can even be used as part of the learning process. One of the few good
things FS have done is included Braille Study mode, and I believe some other
products have similar features, and you can always use speech from a
note-taker or screen reader to help re-inforce what you have learned.


-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jackie Cairns
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:18 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

Hi Dave

I have to agree.  You can't just say you know a bit of Braille by looking at
a few letters or all of the alphabet.  Martin started to learn Braille about
two years ago.  He went through the course, borrowed a Perkins, and now
tries to do a bit of Braille every day.  He uses his right hand, and
actually does extremely well.  As we have a Braille display in the house,
Martin has had some hands-on with it, and actually likes it because there is
only one line of Braille to read each time it refreshes rather than an
entire page.  For someone new to Braille with acquired sight loss, it is
very daunting to feel lots of Braille lines on a page and keep track of
where you are.

I couldn't imagine life without Braille, so I am always pleased and
supportive of people who really want to learn seriously, not just attempt a
few letters out of tokenism and then claim they know it!


Kind Regards, 
 
J
 
 
Jackie Cairns
jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Dave Taylor
Sent: 16 June 2010 10:39
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

Unfortunately it is not easy to learn to read braille by touch. Learning the
actual letters is not too difficult, but it takes an awful lot of practice
to learn. Of those who do not manage to learn braille, the most common
reason is that they can't feel the dots, and this is most often because they
have not been taught properly. It is really important to follow a proper
course since even before you start learning the letters, you are learning to
use your fingers to track along lines etc. This is proven to help a lot of
people. It is much more important for people who lose their sight later than
for people born blind, as those born blind are already used to receiving a
lot of information by touch, and they use the visual cortex for this. People
losing their sight have a lot of extra learning to do. It takes the majority
of people several months to learn uncontracted braille and a couple of years
to learn contracted braille, but support and courses are there and people
who do learn braille value it very highly. The motto is little and often and
never give up!

Cheers
Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Gerald Locke
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:01 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Applying for Braille courses, for a friend

Hi,

Easy to teach yourself Braille as follows:
Braille is composed out of six dots in two columns containing three dots.
Dot 1 is atop the first column followed by dots 2 and three. Dot four tops
the second column followed by dots five and six.
The first ten letters of the Braille alphabet are composed from dots 1, 2,
4, and five as follows:
A is just dot 1, B dots 1 and 2, C dots 1 and 4, D dots 1, 4, and 5. E dots
1 and 5, F dots 1, 2, and 4, G dots 1, 2, 4, 5, ,H dots 1, 2, and5, I dots 2
and 4, J dots2, 4, and 5.
If , using coins or buttons, or better still, a Perkins Brailler, the first
ten letters are composed as above in a straight line, then by adding dot 3
to the above patterns, gives the second ten letters of the Braille
alphavet:e,g, K is dots 1 and 3, L dots 1, 2, and three.
The last six letters are composed by adding dot six to the second ten
Braille letters, except for the W as there is no W in French.
Example:
U is dots 1, 3, and six, V is dots 1, 2, 3, and6, W is dots 2, 4, 5, and 6. 
X is dots 1, 3, 4, and six, Y is dots 1, 3, 4, 5, and six, Z is dots 1, 3,
5, and six.
As seen, W does not follow the same pattern as the rest!
    If your friend can beg, borrow, or . . . a Perkins Brailler, touching
the dot patterns will aid the learning of the touch for reading.

Kind regards,

Gerry. 

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