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Does anyone like there braille teaches in school or have liked them??
Oh man we had one back in skool. She was cool, but it was very eazy to distract her. On to she figgerd it out.
We had the most awesome braille teacher.
My Braille teacher when I was six years old was ancient, or she seemed so at the time. She was a task master, but I learned a lot, and I'm a much better Braille reader for the experience. I am saddened to see how Braille has been devalued in today's schools.
I have a new one and she's really awesome!
I am wondering if braille is used these days as much as it used to in the past because of computer and other technological developments.
I hope braille does not die. I know some blind people who say they hate braille and they will never use it.
Hmmm wow interesting. But the ferst teacher I had, was a total bitch!
Seriously, I have acshaly for gottin most of it.
Our other one retired and this lady took her place! She's awesome even though I don't know her that well!
I've had three great braille teachers. The first one started with me at an early age, so I hardly remember even beginning to grasp the letters and dot combinations of the Braille alphabet. The second one started with me in the second grade, and stayed on until Thanksgiving of my freshman year of high school. He had to retire due to medical problems. It took the district several months to find a new one, and she's really great and patient. After the second one left, I guess I was pretty traumatized because he and I had worked as teacher and student for seven years, and I really was hoping he would see me through graduation. We still keep in touch via telephone, and sadly, he says I'm the only student who kept in contact with him since his early retirement.
To the person who commented about their hope that braille doesn't fall out of use, I totally agree. I'm a die-hard braille user. I went to a training at the NFB in Baltimore several years ago. they sited a study that said that blind people who knew and could use braille were statistically in significantly higher-paying jobs than a non-braille user. I used to teach braille, and loved it. After lunch was bad though, because if you had a beginning braille reader, it got easy to fall asleep between letters and words.
Lou
I also agree with the person who said braille isn't stressed as much in achools today and that is very sad. When I learned braille, thank god it was basically shoved down our throats because I don't know what I'd do without it today. I certainly wouldn't have the job that I have. I don't use it much for personal use because quite frankly it takes up a lot of space but it is really good when you need it.
Kerby
I had awesome braille teachers and I am glad for that. I use to read braille a lot more than I do now. We need to keep it alive because how can you play games, keep numbers or just to read a book. braille rocks!
I started learning Braille when I ws 5. First my teacher came out to our house to teach me, but when I started school, she went there to teach me. I think I had that teacher most of the way through my primary school. I learned to use the braille lite when I was at secondary school. When I got to my last college, the braille teacher there is totally blind and he moved me onto using the braille lite millenium instead of the old braille lite 2000. Up until then, all my braille teachers were sighted, but I think it is better if someone who reads braille teaches braile and braille technology if it's possible, instead of a sighted person who just reads braille by looking at it rather than with their fingers.
I use braille as much as I can, but more and more teachers and lectures at college seem to prefer us to use the computers with jaws or whatever. One of the students I know is almost totally blind and reads braille, but for most of his work, he prefers to use the computer and not be given any braille handouts, except for in his maths. Lucky the lecturers can get all the files and work and things put on the computer in time. We need to have a paper copy of things in braille, because the computers might break and we would have nothing to read our work from when that happens.