Or the other way around, sighted parents can read along with a blind child learning to read, and in addition describe the pictures.
Misha Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:
There are parents who are blind who want to read the books their sighted children read. I think children's picture books (when I say picture books I mean books which have text, but also have large pictures, that are usually big hard cover books, but not thick hard cover books with lots of pages. Maybe 20 to 30 pages. Also there are young children who are blind who might also want to read these books. When I do them if I think the picture is relevant, then I describe it. I'm not the best picture describer (Judy is!) but I try to tell what is important. I think the one book I can think of off the top of my head where the pictures are vitally important is No, David by David Shannon. Much of the text just says "No, David!" so you need to know what's happening in the pictures. I think that was one of the first books I proofread as a new volunteer, although when I just checked the collection, it is now submitted and proofread by Worth Trust, so I hope they put as much love and time into the pictures as I did several years ago.-- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton <br>See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html <http://www.michrxtech.com/books.html>
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