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From: Mary.Otten@p0.f1055.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Mary Otten)
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Subject: Re: Reading Rates
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Date: 17 Jun 91 20:22:25 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I found those studies interesting, but, being the suspicious type Iam, I
can't help but wonder under what conditions they conducted them, how
they got their saple of students etc. I, for example, and I"m not an
especially gifted reader of braille, was tested out some years back when
Ihad optacon training, at a braille reading speed of somewhere around
150 words per minute. Of course, in science, that speed would go down a
lot. Iread around 60 words per minute or so with the optacon and find it
painfully slow. Ican't immagine that the average speed wasn't that much
greater than that for braille. It boggles my mind to say the least. I
still say that the medium of choice should bethat which the older
student chooses for himself, after he has been thoroughly grounded in
the various media, tape or braille. NObody should be able to tell me
that Imay not have braille because some study said this or that. As
Ihave said before, Ican't immagine studying a foreign language without
the availability of braille, at least in the first couple of years of
study. If somebody else can do it fine, but not for me. I guess I"ll
shut up, because all the other points Icould make here, I've made before
in previous messages.

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