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From: robertj@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Robert Jaquiss)
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Subject: Re: Setting the record straight
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Date: 25 Apr 91 16:59:55 GMT
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I aggree with you Mary that forcing braille reading may cause
resentment.  Being totally blind I didn't have to deal with the
issue.  I read braille and didn't know what a talking book was
until the seventh grade.  One test of whether to learn braille is
if the student can take notes names, phone numbers using large
print and two weeks later read the note then he/she may not need
braille.  The speakers at a Parents Of Blind Children seminar
talked about portable systems.  I.E. a slate and stylus or paper
and pen.  Everyone needs a way to take a name or number without
using a $1000 portable computer or a tape recorder.

	Robert Jaquiss

Internet: robertj@tekgen.bv.tek.com