Braille Sign

Are there any good suggestions for some good books on learning braille and sign language? Preferrably ones I can get at the library.

For Braille go to www.braillesuperstore.com

They are amazing and they have a Braille for Sighted program that works well. I learned Braille Level I in less than three months. I know it well enough to read advanced text.

2007-06-16 22:54:19 by brideofsatan_1

Using Vision's 2550 CNC Router / Engraver with Automatic Raster TM Braille Inserter tool to create ADA Braille Signs.

why is there braille on signs on walls etc because wouldnt the blind person have to have seen it to know where it is on the wall?

I never knew that. And also sometimes at the crosswalks they have those special buttons for blind people to cross and they have a sound or something, I never understood those because I though that if a blind person was walking around to find the yellow button he/she'd walk in the street and die.

2009-06-24 14:28:28 by James

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Surely there has to be a seeing person there to locate them to it, and if that's the case why don't they just read it for them?

LOL this is actually a good question! :D
-and I have no idea why people are saying they've never seen a braille sign before. Where do these people live? In the dark?! Braille signs are in bathrooms, elevators, etc!

ANYWAY,
Where I go to college, there are a few that are blind. -and most of the time, people are with them and are literally talking to them and guiding them to the elevators and such. BUT, I have seen ONE blind person in KFC once that asked where the bathrooms were and a cashier told them, "straight to your left on the left side." The blind man turned left, started walking, and felt for the doorway. Then he felt for the sign and figured out it was the mens. :) but he was alone. Had he had someone with him, im sure he wouldnt have bothered.

-and another thing thats weird is did you know that MANY blind people dont know braille?! Most of the ones who know it have been born blind and thats the only way theyve learned to read anything.

2009-04-30 10:41:31 by IPRA

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Blind people can talk, so communication isn't really impaired for them. Before Braille was invented there were some versions of raised lettering that were used to allow blind people to learn to read and write.

As for the deaf, sign languages develop in much the same way as spoken languages, rather than being "implemented". People in a community invent them to be able to communicate. Many families with deaf children invent their own "home signs" to facilitate communication.

American Sign Language as it's used today developed from an indigenous sign language used on Martha's Vineyard, where there was a great deal of hereditary deafness, and from French Sign Language, brought from Europe by Laurent Clerc and Thomas Gallaudet, who established the American School for the Deaf in Hartford CT.

If you're refering to deafblind people, until the last 150 years or so, they really had very few options when it came to communication. Most deafblind children at that time were institutionalized and given up as hopeless causes.

2006-09-17 20:32:48 by sassiest_princess

Not trying to be inflamatory here. It has always puzzled me.
You see signs in public buildings directing people to departments, and below the writing, you see the same message in braille fro the blind.
But how does a blind person know there is a sign there to feel in the first place?

This depends to some degree on how well thought out it has been.

In the well thought out designs - a good example here might be the braille signs for push/pull on door handles - it is intuitive because they can detect the door (with their stick or their dog - or in some cases they can still see the door but not well enough to read things and are still considered legally blind) and will reach out their hand to open it and find the braille.

In the poorly thought out designs - such as the drive through ATM's or perhaps braille on an overpass sign - well, I guess it just demonstrates that artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!

2006-12-01 17:12:30 by Swampy_Bogtrotter