Braille Books For Children

where in the uk can we get a full list of braille books a full date abast with or of the org school colleges that stock books in braille for age children aduits?

Have you tried the royal national institute for the blind. I'm sure you could find their website if you googled RNIB or maybe your local library can help.

2009-01-06 10:12:49 by caz

Seedlings Braille Books for Children introduces the important work they do making low-cost braille books for children across the US and around the ...

Resubmitting an earlier question in a different category:

Thanks in advance for your answers.
My 10 year old child was just diagnosed with Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy. I have a Braille alphabet card for her, and she is trying to learn a letter a day, but I have no idea how to put words together, and certainly cannot teach her what I do not know.
When I spoke to the Braille Institute today, they said that they don't typically teach children Braille while they can still see, but I feel that there is no better time to teach them.
So I am wondering if any of you know of any good computer programs, or even a "Braille for Dummies" type of book (myself being the dummy) that my Daughter and I can both learn basic Braille from?
Or, if any of you are familiar with Braille through remote learning, please let me know about your experience with that. For some reason, I can't quite bring myself to trust something that lets me download valuable information for free!
Thanks again!

A good book is A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader: A Comprehensive Resource for Students, Teachers, and Librarians. There is also a pocket braille cube for learning letters that I've seen used in my classroom (There's an aide that works one on one with a boy with visual impairments) I believe you can get it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Braille-Cub e-Learning-Device/dp/B000A3AE3K/ref=pd_b bs_sr_6?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=121003 1439&sr=8-6

If she is in a public school system, chances are, there is a TVI (Teacher of the Visually Impaired) that will have some helpful suggestions.

Good luck!

2008-05-05 12:32:45 by judo

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Husband and I are both blind and planning on homeschooling our future child(ren). It's quite some time away, but we've been talking and planning. I have a little sight and read print fine with electronic aids. He mainly uses a computer for writing and reading books, but he also knows braille, as do I (though I stick to print mostly). Would it be a good idea to teach our children braille as well as print? I think this would make it more possible for dad to take part in educating them as well as make other things easier as well.. Like leaving notes for/reading notes from the kids as they get older to name one example. What do you think?

I don't see how teaching them braille would hurt anything! Not only would it help them communicate with their dad, but it night also help them later in life as a job skill.
And homeschooling --I was homeschooled, and I think it's a great idea. As long as you are able to read print, I don't see why you'd have much trouble with it. Good luck!

2007-11-14 00:10:45 by Jamie A

I go to school in which you have to do a senior project in order to graduate. This senior project is when u have to research a topic and write a paper,speech, and a community action on it. The topic i have choose is on cancer, I have already done my research paper and speech so now i need a community action.

example of community actions:
Help for the Hungry/Homeless
1. Help cook and/or serve a meal at a homeless shelter
2. Gather clothing from your neighbors and donate it to a local shelter
3. Make "I Care" kits with combs, toothbrushes, shampoo, etc. for homeless people
4. Help with repairs at a local homeless shelter
5. Make a care package with mittens, socks, t-shirts, long underwear, etc. for a child at a homeless shelter
6. Collect grocery coupons to give a local food bank
7. If your community doesn't have a food bank, work with local officials to start one
8. Pack and hand out food at a food shelf
9. Organize a neighborhood group to plant, tend and harvest a vegetable garden
10. Donate the produce to a food shelf

Senior Citizens
1. Adopt a "grandfriend"
2. Visit a nursing home
3. Rake leaves, shovel snow, clean gutters, or wash windows for a senior citizens
4. Pick up medicine for an elderly person
5. Write your "grandfriend" a letter, or write letters for an elderly person
6. Go for a walk with a senior citizen in your community
7. Hold an afternoon dance for your local nursing home
8. Teach them your dances and ask them to teach you theirs
9. Deliver meals to homebound individuals
10. Offer to pick up groceries with/for a senior citizen
11. Help senior citizens in your neighborhood obtain and install locks or smoke alarms
12. Teach a senior friend hot to use a computer or the Internet
13. Get a group together to sing or present a play at a nursing home

School Activities
1. Paint a mural over graffiti
2. Organize and invite local police officers to present a drug awareness or bike safety assembly
3. Form volunteer teams for a campus safety escort service
4. Tutor a student that needs help learning English or some other subject
5. Organize a canned goods drive in conjunction with a school dance and donate the goods to a food shelf

Neighborhood Enhancement
1. Help neighbors paint and repair their homes
2. Clean up a vacant lot
3. Organize a campaign to raise money to purchase and install new playground equipment in an area park
4. Campaign for additional lighting along poorly lighted streets
5. Paint a mural or clean up in a local park
6. Plant flowers in public areas that could use some color

For Those with Special Needs
1. Volunteer to help at a Special Olympics event
2. Set up a buddy system for kids with special needs at your school
3. Raise money for Braille or large print books for the visually impaired
4. Volunteer at an agency that works with emotionally disturbed children
5. Read books or the newspaper on tape for visually impaired people
6. Bring toys to children in the cancer ward of the a hospital

Politics and Government
1. Contact your local League of Women Voters or voter registration office
2. Ask what you can do to help people register to vote
3. Identify a local issue you are concerned about and contact someone in local government with your ideas on what to do about it
4. Organize a public issues forum for your neighborhood
5. Volunteer at a poling booth the day of an election
6. Offer to pass out election materials

The Environment
1. Plant a garden or tree where the whole neighborhood can enjoy it
2. Set up a recycling system for your home and participate in your neighborhood curbside recycling pick-up
3. Organize a carpooling campaign in your neighborhood to cut down or air pollution
4. Adopt an acre of a rainforest
5. Clean up trash along a river or in a park
6. Create a habitat for wildlife
7. Create a campaign to encourage biking and walking
8. Test the health of the water in your local lakes, rivers, or streams
For additional service-learning project ideas categorized by academic subject, see the appendix of the National & Global Youth Service Day Service-Learning Curriculum Guide.



Well i need to do something like those but dealing with cancer
plz help me

Work with your GYSD coalition and that can help with your sr project .. like makeup some kind of fundraiser to help raise money for ppl with cancer and give them information on cancer.. hope this helped

2009-02-16 19:11:51 by Richard s

This is for children who can see, so no braille suggestions please!

Looking Out For Sarah, by Glenna Lang. The story is about Perry, a black Labrador retriever guide dog, and Sarah, a musician who happens to be blind.

This one might be a little advanced, but you can try The Sound of Colors: A journey of the Imagination by Jimmy Liao

Knots on a Counting Rope, by Bill Martin

Mandy Sue Day, by Roberta Karim

Naomi Knows its Springtime, by Virgina Kroll

Lucy's Pictures, by Nicola Moon

Basically, what I did is go to the online catalog of a local library system and used "blind" and "fiction" as my search words. The American Library Association also has a listing of the Scheider Family Book award, given to children's literature (or teen literature) that deals with disability. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section= bookmediaawards&template=/ContentMan agement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID =164983

2007-12-05 08:55:10 by scrat104