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From: David.Andrews@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Education
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Date: 21 Aug 90 02:51:21 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

SB>
 SB> One thing I have noticed about younger blind students is that
 SB> their communication skills are not very good.  This argument
 SB> about whether to teach a low partial braille are rediculous.
 SB> The minute it is obvious that the student is putting out more
 SB> effort into seeing than learning and having a hard time
 keeping SB> up is the time to learn braille.

I agree with you fully and heard another good argument today.
While I have not investigated this fact, the person who told me,
someone I work with, us usually reliable.  He said that he read an
article by Susan Spungen, Assistand Director of the Anerican
Foundation for the Blind which said that 85 percent of all braille
users were employed.  When it is generally accepted that the
unemployment rate, not the employment rate for blind persons as a
whole is 70 percent, this is a pretty good argument to learn
braille.  Obviously the braille users have the tools to compete in
the job market more effectively.  David Andrews

... Your Sound Alternative

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