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From: Donna.Siren@p19.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Donna Siren)
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Subject: handwriting
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Date: 6 Nov 90 04:16:54 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 HK>  who have been blind since birth.  I have heard that hand writing is
 HK>  extremely difficult to master.  Have you?  What techniques did you
 HK>  use to do so?  

It wasn't easy forr me, but there were several reasons for that.
For one thing, no one person had the time to sit down long enough
to work with me, and the next guy's handwriting was a bit different
and this was confusing to me.  Finally, a friend took a piece of
heavy string and attached it (glued it, I think) in the shape of my
name to a piece of cardboard.  I think my biggest problem was
connecting the letters.  Another problem for me was trying to write
small.  I had to write the letters big, so that I could get the
feel of it.  It took a lot of time and patience, but finally I was
able to write my name a bunch of times and a friend took the best
signature and I had a stamp made.  When I was in junior high, there
was a special ed teacher who knew that both of my parents were
blind and why she didn't teach me to sign my name is something I'll
never understand.
	       Donna

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