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- Big Cell for Braille
- Touch and Tell Helps Teach Braille
- Tactual Discrimination Worksheets
- The Peg Slate
- Braillewriting Dot by Dot
- Learn Braille With The Swing Cell
- Quick Pick Braille Contractions
- Weekly Reader: Special Print/Braille Editions
- Fun with Braille
- Using Braille Abbreviations On Games
- Pop-A-Cell to Practice Braille
- Braille Contraction Cards
- Portable Digital TV
- TV Converter Box Coupon Program
| Posted: 12 Jun 2009 12:51 PM PDT  Enlarged plastic braille cell model that allows a blind person to examine the shape of a braille cell. Helps beginning slate users learn where to put the stylus for various dot positions.  |
| Touch and Tell Helps Teach Braille Posted: 12 Jun 2009 12:46 PM PDT  Classic set of braille reading readiness books. Consists of three volumes with tactile pages and regular type instructions. Volumes I and II introduce embossed hands and geometric forms, while Volume III introduces braille dots. Recommended ages: 5 to 6 years. Note: The Form board with Removable Hands (Catalog Number 1-03700-00) is a good precursor to Touch and Tell. Tactual Discrimination Worksheets (Catalog Number 1-08810-00) provide additional practice.  |
| Tactual Discrimination Worksheets Posted: 12 Jun 2009 12:33 PM PDT  Beginning braille students of all ages can benefit from these consumable tactual discrimination worksheets. Four-part set of consumable worksheets for braille reading readiness. Included:
Examples of tasks include: finding the figure which is different in a row of figures, finding the two figures in a row of figures which are the same, finding a figure that matches the first figure in each row, etc. Instruction manual in regular type. Recommended ages: 4 or 5 years and other beginning braille readers of all ages.  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2009 12:28 PM PDT  Paperless device designed to help teach beginning users of the braille slate. A frame is mounted with pegs that represent the braille dots in 10 braille cells. A finger is used to push the pegs down. The frame is then flipped over to read the braille message. Made of black plastic with white plastic pegs for high contrast. Instructions in print and braille. Recommended ages: 6 years to adult.  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2009 12:13 PM PDT  Most programs teach braille reading; this kit focuses on beginning writing skills with braillewriters and slate and stylus. Recommended Ages: 9 years-adult.
Kit with Braille Teacher's Manual: Catalog Number: 5-17400-00 Kit with Print Teacher's Manual: Catalog Number: 7-17400-00 Items available separately Teacher's Edition: Braille: Catalog Number: 5-17401-00 Print: Catalog Number: 7-17401-00 Exercise Cassette: Catalog Number: C-17401-00 Peg Slate: Catalog Number: 1-08830-00 Big Cell: Catalog Number: 1-08820-00 Alphabet Etc.: Catalog Number: 5-17402-00 Click this link to purchase the Braillewriting Dot by Dot Kit. American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. 1839 Frankfort Avenue Mailing Address: P.O. Box 6085 Louisville, Kentucky 40206-0085 Toll Free: 800-223-1839 Phone: 502-895-2405 Fax: 502-899-2274 E-mail: info@aph.org Web site: http://www.aph.org APH Shopping Home: http://shop.aph.org  |
| Learn Braille With The Swing Cell Posted: 12 Jun 2009 11:18 AM PDT Message: I am looking to help a friend with learning Braille. I am totally blind, and have known it all my life it seems, but my friend is having trouble recognizing the dots. My idea to assist him is to use a peg board to make letters and shapes, because I remember doing similar activities when I was in elementary school. Where might i be able to find something like this? I picture a light bright without the light. Any suggestions you have would be appreciated. location: Ohio I think you are on the right track with your thoughts on how to teach your friend braille. The American Printing House for the Blind has a device that you may have used as a child. Swing Cell Introduce beginning braille users to the braille cell using this teaching device. Two rectangular blocks are hinged on the top and mounted on a wooden base. Pegs can be inserted into the blocks to represent braille dots, three pegs per block. With the blocks in the vertical position, the pegs form the braille cell. With the blocks in the horizontal position, the pegs show the position of the keys on a braillewriter. Recommended ages: 5 years and older. Swing Cell Compact Similar to the Swing Cell, but without the base. Smaller and lighter than the original. Helps students understand the relationship between the braille cell and the keys on a braillewriter. Internal storage of pegs. Recommended Ages: 5 years and older.  |
| Quick Pick Braille Contractions Posted: 12 Jun 2009 11:10 AM PDT  The latest in the Quick Pick series of educational games. Quick Pick Contractions includes two cases of fifty cards with each case representing a cross-section of braille contractions. On both sides of the cards, a braille contraction is on the top and four uncontracted answer choices are across the bottom. To play, read the contraction, pick the uncontracted choice that matches, put the wooden tool in the corresponding hole for the answer, and try to pull the card out of the case. If the card slides out, the answer is correct. If incorrect, the card will not slide out -- "Quick Pick" as many cards as possible!  |
| Weekly Reader: Special Print/Braille Editions Posted: 12 Jun 2009 10:51 AM PDT Weekly Reader Large Print Format Is Now in Full Color! APH offers several editions of Weekly Reader® in both large print and braille. The large print format is now in full color. We offer: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Senior (Grades 4th, 5th, and 6th), Current Events, and Current Science. Weekly Reader Teaches BrailleFun and educational publication for print readers who want to learn more about the way kids who are blind read and write. Lively cartoon characters help you learn about the braille code, Louis Braille, braille equipment, large print, Talking Books, and adapted computers. Regular print publication with samples of braille. Recommended ages: 8 years and older. Up to five copies available free on request by phone. Sold individually. For costs and subscription information, please contact APH at 800-223-1839. Note that unlike the accessible formats of Reader's Digest® and Newsweek®, we do not offer Weekly Reader free-of-charge.  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2009 10:31 AM PDT  Braille Practice with a Difference -- It's Fun! This book of entertaining activities is designed to provide additional practice for adults and children who are already familiar with the braille contractions. The activities can be done in any order and can be chosen to practice a specific problem contraction or just for fun. A list of contractions and the activities in which they appear is included for reference. An answer key is provided in the back of the book. The print edition includes selected activities in simulated braille so that print users learning braille can practice their skills. A complete print transcription of the simulated braille is included for non-braille readers.  |
| Using Braille Abbreviations On Games Posted: 12 Jun 2009 09:58 AM PDT Number signs are often omitted on games. In order to make the braille more uniform in length, the letter x may be used instead of 10 or the number sign may be used with numerals 0 through 9 and omitted before numerals 10 and larger. Suits and other necessary words are abbreviated. Here are some examples of how a regular deck of cards might be marked:
Braille playing cards, Bingo cards and a number of other braille games are readily available, or you may use a slate and a stylus to braille your own favorites. Reprinted from Read Again: A Braille Program for Adventitiously Blinded Adults, by Hilda Caton, Eleanor Pester, and EddyJo Bradley. 1990 by the American Printing House for the Blind.  |
| Pop-A-Cell to Practice Braille Posted: 12 Jun 2009 09:46 AM PDT  A large-scale braille cell is presented on a card measuring 2 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Pop the durable plastic cell dots up or down to create various braille characters. Set of four - red, green, yellow, and blue - and a Braille Alphabet and Numbers Card.  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2009 09:35 AM PDT  Flashcards for drilling on the braille literary code. Includes in both large type and braille:
There are 247 cards, measuring 3 1/2 x 2 inches. The first 26 cards contain the braille alphabet on one side and large type on the other side. Remaining cards contain Contracted Braille on one side and both Uncontracted Braille and large type on the other side. Eight blank cards, 30 indexing cards with tabs, and a storage box are included. Recommended ages: 6 years and older.  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2009 08:29 AM PDT Blind and visually impaired people love portable TVs. Everyone I know has at least one that they've been using for years. We don't care that the screen is black and white or that it's only two inches. What we want is great sound and the portability. Now that the switch to digital TV has occured, many of us have useless portable TVs. That relyable TV is now ready for the trash. Portable digital TVs are being talked a lot about lately. We have had several requests for information about portable digital TV sets, where to find them, and if old portable analog TVs can be used after the transition. Portable Digital TV sets became easier to find as the transition approached. Manufactures are including some cool features, digital picture frames and MP3 players can be actived when the TV is not in use. Features to look for when choosing a portable Digital TV:
Click this link to learn ways to use your old portable TV with a converter box.  |
| TV Converter Box Coupon Program Posted: 12 Jun 2009 07:59 AM PDT Have you purchased your digital converter box yet? Are you confused as to which one to purchase that will allow you to listen to descriptive video? You have four options to get a coupon to help purchase a converter box:
The TV converter box coupon application requires that you provide your name, household address, number of coupons requested (maximum of two) and whether you subscribe to cable, satellite or other pay television service. Coupons look like plastic credit cards or gift cards used widely in the retail industry. There is nothing on the card to distinguish it from a credit card, so watch your mail carefully if you are blind or visually impaired. Unlike gift cards, TV converter box coupons will carry no stored value and can only be used towards the purchase of eligible TV converter boxes. Each household can request a maximum of two coupons. Each coupon may be applied towards the purchase of a single converter box. The coupons can be ordered one at a time or both at the same time. Video Description and Converter BoxesNow that you've signed up to receive a coupon for a converter box, what converter should you purchase? Mary Watkins, Director of Communications and Outreach for Media Access Group at WGBH did some research and found the following: WGBH's Media Access Group has tested two of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration/NTIA-certified coupon eligible converter boxes and has determined that you can indeed receive and hear video description from a broadcast digital TV signal that properly includes it. We tested two boxes: We tuned in two different PBS kids programs broadcast on WGBH's digital channel and heard the descriptions coming through. Even better news is that both boxes have both CC and SAP (or audio) buttons on the remote controls that allow you to access the various caption signals and alternate audio channels without having to go through the set-up menus. You will find discrepancies in the on-screen menus when you use the two different methods for controlling the alternate audio:
The broadcaster must be properly tagging and sending the alternate audio in order for the boxes to pick up those signals and present them to the viewer. The WGBH - Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has published a new Outreach and Policy Paper, Digital Television and Video Description: Service Continues, Consumer and Industry Efforts Required NCAM previously published an overview of problems confronting deaf or hard-of-hearing people trying to access captions via DTV or through a converter box. The "DTVCC" paper can be found on NCAM's Web site listed below. This paper focuses on challenges facing blind or low vision viewers who rely on video description to enjoy and fully understand television programming. Topics covered include:
This paper, along with much more information about the DTV conversion from a variety of resources, can be found at NCAM's DTV Access site, http://dtvaccess.org or http://ncam.wgbh.org/dtv. NCAM has established a one-way email address, dtvaccess@wgbh.org, as an aggregator of complaints and problems related to the DTV rollout. If you send a report about a DTV access problem to this address, you will receive an automatic response that says that your report has been received and that they are gathering information but cannot respond to your inquiry, and that they will pass along common issues to relevant parties.  |
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