[ebooktalk] Re: Learning and teaching Braille.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:26:41 +0100
I am so glad that I had to learn Braille in a hurry due to suddenly not being
able to read during my mock exams at school.
I think that if I had left school without getting that under my belt, I might
never have mastered it to a degree where I can enjoy reading for pleasure. I
couldn't contemplate a life of reading exclusively through audio.
I am still very angry that Braille music wasn't offered at school to anyone. I
hope to complete my learning of that one day.
Shell.
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From: "Clare Gailans" <cgailans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:00 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Learning and teaching Braille.
> Elaine, couldn't agree more. Braille is the single most important inanimate
> thing in my life. I think a huge amount of harm has been done by the
> reluctance of blind charities to acknowledge that the lack of braille skills
> is illiteracy. If these people had really listened to professional readers,
> they couldn't fail to notice that they almost always read more slowly than
> they could. I consciously slow myself down when reading aloud, because it is
> quite uncomfortable to listen to someone reading as fast as the words are
> going into their brain. If you think the braille outlook is depressing, the
> braille music one is worse. Even in a school for the blind, I have met a
> teacher who had been the music teacher for five years and hadn't (got round)
> to learning braille music. One very able pupil who was felt to need it was
> passed on to a retired teacher for email help. Sorry for getting away from
> books, but I often sit with a braille book in company, where it would be
> anti-social to use headphones, and you couldn't dip in and out of the
> conversation. Clare
>
>
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