Talking Book Braille

When you comprehend english sentence, How do you comprehend it?

The Library of Congress cooperates with a nationwide network of libraries to provide free library service for visually or physically handicapped individuals who cannot use printed materials. Through this program, books and magazines in recorded and braille forms are made available to eligible residents of the United States, its territories and possessions, and to eligible U.S. citizens living abroad. In addition to the bimonthly publications TALKING BOOK TOPICS and BRAILLE BOOK REVIEW, which are mailed free of charge to registered readers, to organizations serving the visually or physically handicapped, and to interested individuals, various catalogs and bibliographies inform readers of the range of titles and services available to them from their regional libraries.

I want to know the efficient way to comprehend english

Those sentences are relatively long and contain multiple clauses, each a concept of its own. The way to comprehend this kind of material is to take it one clause (subject-verb-[object]) at a time.

A trick that works is to read it out loud, slowly, as if you were reading to an avid listener eager to understand it. (You are, and it's you.)

2007-11-03 05:50:40 by gisno

This is JRR Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'. A classic on so many levels methinks^_^ This reading of the book by Nicol Williamson is an ...

also things such as talking watchs

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Hope this helps!

2007-07-16 09:57:04 by surbhs10

Price: $5.95 $5.95

My 13 year old son really wants an XBox 360 for xmas. Money is not the issue. Here's the issue....He does well in school for the most part. He is visually impaired and reads both large print and Braille. For many reasons he must be proficient in braille in preparation for college. It's just not feasable for him to rely on large print for everything ( and I'm talking LARGE). The problem is he doesn't want to be different and wants to read only print. His Dad and I totally understand that, but my son isn't thinking far enough ahead, just the here and now. He not mature-I realize that. He resists reading his braille books at home unless we absolutely force him, and the teacher/braille aide has to battle with him at school over it. Other than that he is a great son...helpful, caring, funny, compassionate, respectful. But he is wasting time, he is not reading at his age level at either large print or braille due to his feistiness. So...the question:
Do youthink it is wrong to attach a condition on this Christmas gift: He must, by teachers report, give 100% effort to braille with no complaining. I say "no" as long as he knows upfront. My Husband says a gift is a gift.
he must also read braille at home just as any kid would read for 10-15 minutes a day.

BTW He can play games, he has to be pretty close to the TV though
As a parent, I have the obligation to PLAN for his future, not him. I have to ensure he is prepared for college, then IF he wants to go, he is prepared. Just like any kid. What would happen if parents decided to let their kids whatever they wanted? What if they didn't want to do their math, would you say "let kids be kids". Sheesh..sounds like someone needs a dose of reality!

I think you are on the right track. Give the gift, but the condition for playing it is the positive behavior. My parents used this on me and it worked. The amative_unity person obviously doesn't have kids and if she did; god help them!

2007-07-16 08:55:43 by Lesleann

Price: $26.95

Me and my mates know this guy who is blind. We like to have a bit of a joke with him;

- moving his furniture about
- tying tin cans and house bricks to his guide dog
- taking pages out of his braille books and putting them back in upside down, or replacing them with randomly indented paper.

So far, this has just been lighthearted fun but...

On friday night we'd had a few too many and one of us put his blender next to his phone. Well someone gave him a call on saturday morning and now he only has the thumb and little finger left on his right hand.

We haven't talked to him yet but, by all accounts, he's pretty angry.

We're a bit worried that he might turn against us and grass us up to the old bill. I mean, we were only joking for Pete's sake! It's not our fault if he can't tell a blender from a telephone, is it?

What we want to know is, will the courts see it the same way? Are we responsible in the eyes of the law?

Oh, most definetly you are responsible in the eyes of the law but if it makes you feel better, I don't think you will go to jail. More than likely you'll pay his hospital bills and part of his living expenses for the rest of his life.

2006-12-04 07:27:00 by Monkfish

I am not blind but I use tools that blind people do, if they are available and not scarce which i have never come across. I have a learning disability , I can read pretty good but I like to have large print text because it doesn't look crowded and it's easier to process. I check out audio books from the library as well as the book because I am an audio visual learner.
with my learning disability , certain life skills have been delayed - tying my shoes , math , reading , buttoning shirts , and a few other things. It's kind of funny that I have difficultly telling time. Other people don't think it's funny when I read the time as being one hour early or one hour ahead and they say - Oh crap ! i am late ! then I say " you look at it". We have become so lazy with digital watches and clocks but I would like to learn to tell time on an analog clock. I have a friend who is nearly blind that has a watch that talks but the numbers are in braille. I know how to read braille ( I am a very curious person and I have a friend who used to work at a blind school and she had to learn braille - at the time a didn't have much of a life
) a little bit but I am not blind so why do I need to learn. I only know letters : A-F and that's by sight and with a key. so that doesn't count for much.
So getting to the point ; Is there such thing as a talking watch?

Yes, Radio shack will most likely have one, I've seen them there before and if I remember correctly they were only around $20.

2008-12-19 19:05:14 by Jesse