[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:25:48 -0700 (PDT)
Excellent, Shelley. Good points
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on children's book without page numbers
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 6:27 PM
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
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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