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Monthly Archives: August 2013

Highly-Qualified Teachers Pass the National Certification in Literary Braille (NCLB)

30 Aug
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My kids just started back to school, and for the past few days, I keep hearing from the school about how so many of their teachers are “National Board Certified.” The certification process isn’t mandated, it’s time-consuming for the teachers, … Read More »

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How to Increase Your Braille Reading Speed

23 Aug
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In this third installment of my series about learning to read braille in six months, we’ll focus on reading speed. As I mentioned in the first post about braille myths, the idea that braille is slow is complete hogwash. Braille … Read More »

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Discussing the Education of Visually-Impaired Children

21 Aug
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Most students with low vision can manage to make it through kindergarten and even first grade with little interventions because the print size is so large in every book. Once the print begins to become smaller, you may notice that … Read More »

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4 Habits of Highly Effective Students of Braille

17 Aug

In my preliminary post in this series, I discussed some prevailing myths about braille. Today, I want to focus upon the habits of highly successful braille students. Mastery of the braille code must be done as quickly and as efficiently … Read More »

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Why Failing Blind Kids on One Test May Be a Good Idea

8 Aug
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Last week, I and a group of us from the Institute on Blindness presented at the 2013 IDEA Leadership Conference, where more than 1,200 directors of special education and school superintendents gathered to—in the words of the conference mission statement—”support … Read More »

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Myths & Realities of Learning Braille

1 Aug

While teaching for 27 years at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, I personally timed over 80 readers who read braille at 300 to 500 words per minute…as fast or faster than the educated classes of America. All of them … Read More »

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