Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech
Kristen Sims grew up in Ruston, Louisiana, home to the Louisiana Center for the Blind, yet she didn’t know about the exciting careers in the field of blindness. “I didn’t see blind people as any different,” she said. “To be … Read More »
Krystal Guillory, NCLB—a teacher of blind students working in Louisiana’s Lincoln Parish Schools—has set a high braille-reading goal for her elementary-aged students: read 100 braille books this school year. The schools are participating in the Accelerated Reader program designed to … Read More »
A wide selection of new products from the American Printing House for the Blind will be on display at the upcoming Louisiana Teacher Training Conference on Blindness and Low Vision. Our thanks go to APH for providing us with this … Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
When I lost my vision at age fifteen, I soon began to learn how to use a cane. Like so many others, what I learned first was how to fold and put away my aluminum cane. After all, the instructor … Read More »