[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:27:36 -0400
Not to mention blind teachers with sighted students where we need to ask things
like, "What do you think from the picture that the author means by ...?" or
other things"do you think that the boy is happy or sad and how can you tell in
the picture?"
And yes I had to do that to several students, smile, is supposed to encourage
full observation and drawing conclusions from both what you read, hear and what
you see in pictures.
So Bookshare made it possible for me to do that particular task in my job.
By the by, I just noticed this in the last couple of print Braille books from
National Braille Press but they are putting in picture descriptions now.
----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy
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Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 5:37 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
--- Yes, that occurred to me a long time ago and I was wondering why I
was describing illustrations. Sighted parent could describe pictures to blind
child and sighted child could describe pictures to blind parent.. Then it
occurred to me that maybe a very young child wouldn't have the vocabulary to
describe what he/she was seeing. Even with descriptions, a parent is probably
oing to have to explain what some things in the illustrations are, if the child
h asn't expeienced them. I'm so glad that, as Shelley has told us, there are
models, e.g., of animals, that a chuld can feel.
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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