Hi Alison,
You can say that again. My local society for the blind phoned me last week,
asking if I knew a Braille teacher, who works privately, and I honestly don’t.
Where do they promote themselves?
Apparently, the person asking for the teaching went to RNIB, who then sent them
to our local society, who then asked me.
No wonder few blind people learn Braille?
All the best
Steve
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Thanks to Mo and Shantel who responded to my query.
I ran the introduction to braille event yesterday and three students wish to go
on to learning braille. In preparation for the day, I looked at the RNIB Shop
and was disappointed to see how few resources there appear to be, for example,
when I used to teach it as a rehab. Worker, there was something called
interlock, which were plastic tiles with braille and print letters which the
student could use to make up words and there was also a dice which you could
switch around to make up a braille letter.
I also see, if I have read it correctly, that the teacher’s handbook is now
only available on a CD in various formats so I would need to download the file
to my braille notetaker. How would this work for someone without such a device
I wonder?
If my students go beyond grade 1, then to a certain extent this will be a
learning process for me too as I have only taught Standard English Braille and
still use this for my own needs. I don’t envisage this being a problem however.
I am disappointed however how few teaching resources there are for braille.
Alison
