Braille Children

I know there are lending libraries. I can't seem to find anyone who sells children's braille books in Australia. I'd like to be able to keep them rater than have to return them afterwards.

The Braille Bookstore is an online shop in Canada - I've included the Contact Us link so you can find out about delivery costs etc. to Australia.
Vision Australia is the primary supplier of lending materials for the vision impaired in Australia so it may be worthwhile contacting them to find out who they get their braille books from.

2008-04-09 20:44:50 by spiciesmurf

www.unicef.org PODGORICA, Montenegro, 06 January 2010 On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC ...

I know there are three different weights of Braille paper (light, medium, and heavy). Which one should I get for children who are just learning how to write Braille (ages ranging from six to teenagers)? I imagine heavy weight would be hard to push through, but I'm not sure, and I think light weight might tear earier? But again, I'm not sure. Does anyone know what weight is best? Should I play it safe and get medium?

The Braille paper that is available from the American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, Ky. has one weight of Braille paper that is used by beginners as well as those who have a good command of Braille. Are the young children who are learning Braille using a Braille writer or slate and stylus? I prefer starting them out with a Braille writer, but there are differences of opinion on this. If using a Braille writer then the paper from the Printing House would be fine. If starting out using slate and stylus, then the paper would need to be relatively easy to push the stylus through, but not so thin as to allow holes in the paper thus making it hard to read, again the American Printing House paper would do the trick.

2009-04-30 22:02:25 by Jewel

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Has a new children's braille book every month.

2007-09-08 08:45:04 by red_corvette01

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Some blind people where saying computers that read thing for you, disavantage children with learning to read braille.
But they still need to read braille like totilet doors in public and food label.

The real issue isn't signs in public--simply having raised letters is usually sufficient.

This issue dates back about 25 years. When the first speech synthesizers came out, educators of the blind enthusiastically adopted them as an easier way of teaching children--and given the emerging "imformation economy" clearly blind people would soon use these instead of braille in daily life and work.

It was a disaster. Only about 12% of the children taughtthis way were even minimally litrate. The reasons--from a technical/phsychological standpoint--are a bit complicated. But here is the essence. LIteracy is not the physical act of reading or writing--it is the development of a crucial cognitiv skill: being able to readily correlate the informal structure of verbal communication with the more formal structure of the written language. And the medium isn't the key--whether its visual (printed) letters and writing with a pen or reading the tactile Braille alphabet ad using a stylus or Brailler to make the letters. The point is to develop the thinking skills that go with handling the physical symbols we use tfor writing.

And computers don'tdo that. Children only listen to speech--and didn't actually learn to recognize and use the symbols. And ended up functionally illeterate. This problem was reversed--and in many states the law now requires totally blind children to be taught braille. Unfortunately, given the miserable state of special education in our schools and the prevalence of school discrimination against children with disabilities, they are often not getting this instruction to the extent they should--as they used to in the specialized schools for the blind.

NOTE--that's nothing against computers with speech output (I'd be pretty hypocritical to say otherwise--I'm using it to type this answer!). In everyday life they are usually easier and far more practical than Brailly for most purposes. But blind children MUST develop the thinking/cognitive skills--and Braille is an essential tool for doing that.

2007-07-24 15:16:14 by jobees

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2006-08-16 03:18:18 by wonder