Braille Grade 2

First character, letter m, dots 1, 3, 4
Second character, en contraction, dots 2, 6

2006-08-14 15:50:42 by Jack L

An introduction to Grade 2 Braille, now called Contracted Braille. Print a cheat sheet to help you learn these letters and contractions at this ...

hululuh

2006-08-13 06:56:53 by Mike Z

Price: $16.65 $9.95

Easy-to-see white graphic.
Raised tactile graphics with grade 2 Braille.
Meets Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements.

Examples of -ear would be, of course, ear...also, 'learn' 'bear' and 'dear'...let's take learn as an example: would it be contracted 'l-ea-r-n' (in dots: 123-2-1235-1345) or 'l-e-ar-n' (in dots: 123-15-345-1345). Or is each one different depending on the sound that the 'ear' makes (like in learn, you hear 'ar' so it would be l-e-ar-n, and in 'bear' you hear 'ea' so it would be b-ea-r?)

ea always
vowels are always combined when adjacent each other versus an adjacent consanent.

2008-06-05 17:35:20 by Jewel

Sorry guys...I know I posted this question already but my internet crashed before I could finish asking my question and I didnt think it actually posted.
Anyway, I'm kind of a newbie to Braille. I wanted to learn when I was in fourth grade but my vision was too good. However, its gotten much worse and print (even when it's enlarged to like over 200%) is getting really tough to read. So, I started learning Braille my sophmore year of high school. This year I've finally learned Grade 2 Braille (which helps SO much) but I'm still very slow!! I kno I'm going to be depending on Braille a lot more because my vision is getting worse due to Glaucoma. Right now I read 30ish wpm. Does anyone have any tips or advice to get faster? I try reading with two hands but thats really hard because my left hand is much slower. Are there any ways to make 2-hand reading easier? How can I get faster at reading?? Has anyone else had this issue? Any help would be great!
Thanks again for all your help!
:)

I'm learning braille right now too (I'm 17). I can still read large print with a video magnifier (Quicklook. It's quite useful) but I wanted to learn braille so that I could read menues in restaurants and other things that aren't available in large print, and so I can avoid eye fatigue, and so I can write notes and read notes for/from my boyfriend who is also blind. Like you, they wouldn't teach me in elementary school because they thought I had too much vision (I didn't. I think if I learned braille early I would have had considerably fewer headaches and considerably fewer missed assignments in school, but I don't know. there were other things they could have done too but didn't) I'm just now at grade 2 braille as well. I found that if I read with just my right hand and keep my left hand at the beginning of the line it's a lot easier to jump down to the next line without loosing my place. I've also been using the first two fingers (index and middle) on my right hand to read a bit faster... Kind of seeing multiple characters at once like you can do with your eyes. It makes it faster. You can also make your fingers more sensative by rubbing hand lotion on them every now and then. This helped me especially since I play guitar and my fingertips get a bit tough when I've been playing for a long time. You can also try practicing recognizing new characters by arranging tennis balls in a 6-hole muffin tin or eggs in a 6-hole egg carton to make a large braille cell and get you used to the shape you're learning. E-mail me if you want to chat or havemore questions. I always like meeting another blind person. I have glaucoma too, by the way. Blackbyrdfly@gmail.com

2008-04-26 17:42:55 by esh

Hi everyone. I am currently working on a project to help blind people socialize more in society, and im focusing on them grocery shopping. I need someone who knows grade 2 braille, or put simply who is fluent with braille so that I can have some word translated into brialle and possibly and illustration (dots right?) Cheers
An answer to Belie.

Not to sound arrogant at all but since it is a university project, a considerable amount of time (28 hours) has been put forth toward the research of this topic. With simply googling this you will find that a noticable amount, a higher average of blind people dont know how to use Grade 2 braille. Which is basically words in braille. Sure they know abc and 123 in braille. But that is almost like us going to preschool. Very few people know and master this grade 2 braille in which they can put together braille words/ sentences. Cheers.

There is a free braille translation program downloadable here. http://www.nfb.org/nfb/nfbtrans.asp
While you're at it, you might want to browse the entire website...

Read http://www.aph.org/edresearch/guides.htm
Meaningful tactile graphics aren't "dots, right?"

2008-11-30 15:48:40 by kp08sk