Category: The Rave Board
Hey all! I wanted to tell you a few things I learned while I was away at my state convention of the national federation of the blind that made me very happy. One thing is all the skills barring the cooking skills came back to me in a flash from my great training when I was getting to all different places around the hotel we were staying in for the week. That made me feel many emotions at once. But the two most overwhelming emotions I felt the most was pride in myself, and joy my skills never left me even when I returned home. I did so well with my mobility training that I helped four people find a restaurant in the hotel, by them walking behind me as I showed them the way. The other awesome thing that happened was I helped a friend of mine and two older women find their hotel rooms. They had all just lost their vision a few years ago, so they didn'tknow braille. I put their hands over my hand, and showed them the braille numbers on the walls. I felt so good when I helped them because I felt great inside. I also realized that those people didn't come into my life for no reason at all. They were brought to me, to show me that teaching braille is the career I was called to serve. I feel so overwhelmed with gratitude I am thrilled.
I just want to share these things with you.
I also went down by and returned by access link, and I kept my hotel room organized with my clothes hung up or put in drawers, so I knew where things were at all times. It was fun rooming by myself, I enjoyed the experience. It was a long ride 3 transfers 4 hours one way, and 3 transfers and 4 hours coming home, but in my eyes it was totally worth it!
I can't wait to do this again next year!
I am so happy I am now 100 percent certain I want to teach braille to children. I love when my love of teaching is rekindled, it is a once in a life time experience.
Using the hand over hand method is not necessarily going to actively encourage people to learn how to read and recognize Braille themselves. It may demonstrate the importance of Braille literacy in your life, but if the person you're helping has neuropathy in their hands, how will you help them learn to recognize the different characters? Those signs in public places are not written in jumbo Braille. Do a google search for active learning.
Another thing. You mentioned the following statement, and the wording has me slightly confused.
"One thing is all the skills barring the cooking skills came back to me in a flash from my great training when I was getting to all different places around the hotel."
Please elaborate; what exactly does that mean?
One more thing. You also said, "I am now 100 percent certain I want to teach braille to children."
please, understand i am not discouraging you. i'm only saying that children are not little adults. They learn very differently, and each child learns differently from the next. so it's imperative that you have a whole, "toolbox," as it were, of methods for teaching braille to children at different ages and stages in their development and education. I would also strongly encourage you to find other blind vision rehabilitation therapists or teachers of the visually impaired from whom you can get some valuable insight if you haven't done that already. as an eventual instructor, you will have to find and create solutions for making Braille instruction and literacy both fun and interesting for your eventual students.