[bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?

  • From: "Russ & Valerie" <valruss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:21:18 -0400

Sounds like Fahrenheit 451; no one reads.

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, 27 August, 2006 01 00
Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?



Well, my question is very simple. If I as a blind person don't need Braille then I would guess that the sighted person doesn't need a print monitor! After all if we should listen to speech then a sighted person should listen to speech too!



----- Original Message ----- From: "David Allen" <wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:02 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?



: Hi David and list:
:
: Do these coordinators really believe that adaptive technology is developed
: to such an advanced extent that blind people have no need of a basic
: literacy tool? If this tool isn't Braille, I can't imagine what they'd
: propose, speech I suppose? The question is rhetorical in this group, but
: perhaps one that those in tertiary Disability coordinator and so-called
: Rehab councillor positions ought to spend some more time considering more
: inteligently.
:
: Cheers,
: Dave
: ----- Original Message ----- : From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
: To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:20 PM
: Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?
:
:
: >I had a counselor tell me the other day that she had spoken with the
: >disabilities coordinator at a local college and she was encouraged that the
: >disabilities coordinator was trying to wean their blind students off of
: >Braille. The counselor thought that this was wonderful, and that blind
: >people need to start living in the real world and use laptops instead of
: >notetakers with Braille displays and Braille keyboards. She used this
: >reasoning to reject a recommendation from her agency's adaptive technology
: >specialist for a Braille display with Braille keyboard to be used by the
: >student with their screen reader and also with an accessible PDA. Of
: >course the counselor is always right since the adaptive technology
: >specialist is blind he obviously is not capable of making an unbiased
: >decision.
: >
: > Sorry, but this is getting to be more and more the typical response of
: > sighted counselors and the sighted management that backs their decisions.
: >
: >
: > ----- Original Message ----- : > From: "Doc" <talmidim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:09 AM
: > Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?
: >
: >
: > : If she studies better by braille then tell her to press her point and be
: > : sure to have a letter justifying why braille is better for her. If she
: > : needs to she can go to her counselor's supervisor.
: > : ******************************
: > :
: > : A mind is a terrible thing....
: > : robert Doc Wright
: > : http://www.wrightplaceinc.net
: > : msn
: > : godfearer15@xxxxxxxxxxx
: > :
: > :
: > : ----- Original Message ----- : > : From: "Clarence Whaley" <clarence.whaley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
: > : To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: > : Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:28 AM
: > : Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?
: > :
: > :
: > : According to google it is a talking voice organizer. Too
: > : sad that they think it is perfect. Available from Maxiaids.
: > :
: > :
: > : At 09:23 AM 8/25/2006 -0500, you wrote:
: > : >A friend of mine just had her voc. rehab. case opened. She's in
: > graduate
: > : >school and desperately needs some updated equipment. I told her to
: > request
: > : >a Braillenote or Pac Mate. After meeting with her counselor, she said
: > that
: > : >the counselor insisted that a device called the TADI was perfect for
: > her
: > : >needs, and that's what she's getting. I've never heard of it -- and
: > she
: > : >wants my opinion. Anyone here ever heard of it?
: > :
: > :
: > :
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