[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:09:32 EDT
Your comment about blind teachers with sighted students reminded me of
something. When I first became blind I registered with the state rehabilitation
agency and in my first meeting with a field counselor with that agency I was
really speculating about what I wanted to do with myself. I was completely
new to not only my own blindness, but also to the whole field of blindness.
I remembered that at one time I had an ambition to become a teacher which I
had not followed through with, so I mentioned it as a possible ambition I
might resume. The counselor just dismissed it saying something like blind
people can't be teachers. At the time I just accepted her dismissal. Now I
realize how stupid she really was. Her attitude might be partially explained by
the fact that her specialty was not blindness, but was just a general field
counselor for the rehab agency.
"If you
tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
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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.
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--- 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.
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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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