--- Forwarded Message from Sonja Fritzsche <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:46:44 -0500
>Subject: Re: #7507.1 Braille books (!)
>From: Sonja Fritzsche <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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Dear Carol,
I taught German to a blind student. What was quite helpful was to send my
handouts to disability services a day or two in advance and they created
braille copies. The student then got into the regular habit of going to
disability services before she came to my class. It was important for them
to write the title of the handout on top of the braille version. Sometimes
my student wasn't always able to find where we were in the book or which
worksheet we were working with. I could then read the top of the brailled
worksheets and find it for her more quickly. Also it is important for the
instructor to remember to describe everything in class, as the student is
not able to see charts or what the instructor is pointing to. It is very
important for the instructor to ask the student after each class or two how
everything is going. What are their frustrations? What are they getting ok?
Once several access issues are worked out at the beginning of the class and
a routine is established for getting materials, things should work out well.
I did a lot of work in the computer lab in that class. For chat room
exercises, I had this student go to disability services and log in from
there and work with it using Jaws software, which reads everything aloud to
her. This worked rather well. For computer lab class work that involved
grammar exercises or other work using the www, the university hired a
German-language student to act as a reader for her. This worked very well.
Best,
Sonja
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Sonja Fritzsche
Asst. Prof. of German and East European Studies
Fulbright Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Illinois Wesleyan University
P.O. Box 2900
201 E. University
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
USA
309-556-3290
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> From: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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> Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 16:48:04 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: #7507.1 Braille books (!)
>
> --- Forwarded Message from "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:00:13 -0700
>> From: "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: #7507 Braille books
>
> One of our DSPS staff just asked me the other day what to do for a
> student who has just requested a braille version of an elementary French
> text. I'd also be interested in hearing what needs to be done for
> language materials. Please post to the list. And, if others have done
> this, maybe we could share materials, as folks do with the digital audio
> files?
>
>
> _______________________
> Carol H. Reitan
> Technology Learning Center
> Instructor of French
> City College of San Francisco
> LB2, 50 Phelan Avenue
> San Francisco, CA 94112
> (415) 239-3554
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> --- Forwarded Message from LeeAnn Stone <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:19:32 -0700
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> From: LeeAnn Stone <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Braille books
>
> Hi all,
>
> Have any of you had to get any language materials (texts,
> ancillaries)
> converted to braille? If so, how have you accomplished this? Through
> Disabled Student Services, through an outside organization, other? Do
> you
> retain the materials afterward in the Language Center, or...?
>
>
> LeeAnn Stone
> TeacherTech Connection
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