Braille Literacy

I am writing a paper about the relevance of literacy to developing skills for orientation and mobility. I was looking for personal experiences with cane or dog travel and how you would use literacy to plan or execute travel.

Unless the places traveled to have Braille information posted at their locations and along the routes to the destinations, then it really doesn't matter. Not many areas have Braille info posted, at least not the places we have been.

Now, my wife uses Braille maps (I sure cant read them) in planning her ventures, and she tries to get as much info as possible before beginning her trips, but knowing Braille sure doesn't make her actual Guide Dog or cane use or travel any different. The best thing she does is to research how to get to her destination before she leaves.

The newer personal GPS units are also making her travel easier and a bit more safer as well.

As a side note; just for fun, I once used her cane under sleep shade (blindfolded) on a walk to one of our favorite places. We frequently walk to this place, her with her Guide and myself with my eyes, and I usually have a pretty good "internal compass" and do not get lost easily. Well, to tell you........I got lost. I got twisted around and we ended up about 1/4 mile away and on the wrong side of the road. She of course knew we were going the wrong way, she just kept quiet until I had enough and took off the sleep shade. I don't question her trip preparations anymore, needless to say.

I hope this helps.

2008-11-23 15:41:08 by Lisa

Braille Literacy Classroom - One PC to 1 teacher and 5 students each with dynamic braille touch display and each with ordinary PC keyboards ...

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2009-12-04 15:37:13 by Teddy & Chiliswoman

I've been working with the Department of the Blind, and they've suggested getting in contact with Social Service, which I'm going to do today...but I'm not sure who does what.

What services do Social Services provide and help with, and what does the Department do and help with? Who does OandM (I need more...I get disoriented too easily)? Who assists with braille literacy? Who does vocational rehab? Who assists with adjusting things around the home to make it more accessible?

I'm having trouble figuring out where the line is....is there a line? How do I know who to go to about problems?

hi there i'm blind myself it can be very hard to ge tthe right support you need from social services what i namal do is ask my moblity officer and if she cannot help she tell me who can and she then contact them.

it very hard to now what support they can do.

where do you help is learning to read and write braile, long cane training

hope this help you a little bit

in the uk we have a org for the blind and parity sighted. called

www.rnib.org.uk

do you get books in a formate you can read?

take care good luck any more help just ask and i anster your quistions

2009-01-26 03:44:32 by Jewel

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