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Does two giant bumps mean "woman" in braile?

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:22:34 +0000

Oh, I crack myself up! LOL.

Hahahahaha!! I legitimately laughed out loud reading this!

What to do if a student refuses to use braille?

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 09:36:09 +0000

An 8 year old student severely needs the use of braille to master her lessons. She is almost rebellious because she does not want to be picked on and labeled the "blind girl" although many of her fellow classmates wear glasses. What should the approach of the teacher be to the girl and her classmates? Should her academic progress be bought at a price of social isolation?

What I do is give the kid a choice. Let them know that they do have a choice and with each choice comes certain effects.

Get her alone with her parents. Explain to her that she has a choice. She can choose to use Braille to keep up in class and yes, they might call her the "blind girl." Or she can choose not to use Braille. She will start falling behind. She will be unable to answer questions in class and kids will laugh at her. She will start failing on tests and her parents will be upset. Eventually she will flunk and will be held back a year. The younger kids will know she flunked and they will call her the "stupid girl." And next year she will have the exact same choice as she does this year.

Give her a choice and let her know the negatives of each choice. I bet she would rather be known as the blind girl than the stupid girl.

What are other popular ways to write words besides cursive, braille, morse code, and moon type?

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:48:14 +0000

because i think it would be awesome to be able to write something that only a few select people would know, but is easy to learn like cursive, rather than braille, morse code, and moon type?

runes?
ogham script?
cyrillic alphabet? like Russian.
chinese characters?

In the movie "Avatar", there is something written on Norm’s hat that seems to be in Braille. What does it mean?

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:16:29 +0000

It’s on the part where he and Grace are taking samples from the tree, just before Jake is chased by the Thanator. What is written on Norm’s hat seems to be in Braille, and I copied it, but some of the letters don’t match the Braille alphabet. What does it mean?

Apparently it says 1969, which is the founding date of GAP, who made the hat.
Unfortunately, it has no reference to the film, or any special meaning at all, haha.

in which city was louis braille by margaret davidson published?

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:06:16 +0000

Personal name: Davidson, Margaret, 1936-
Main title: Louis Braille, the boy who invented books for the blind. Illustrated by Janet Compere.
Published/Created: New York, Hastings House [1972, c1971]
Description: 80 p. illus. 22 cm
LCCN permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/73039630

Are books on college and university Maths and the natural sciences available in braille anywhere in the world?

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:29:06 +0000

Are college and university-level books on Maths, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry, and Biology available in braille anywhere in the world? Are these affordable enough? Is there any international library featuring such a collection?

If you attend school in the United States, your college or university will be required to ensure that you have textbooks in an accessible format. (The specific laws you’ll be depending on are Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.) You will not be required to pay more for your books than other students are, but you may not be able to keep them at the end of the semester. (I tend to think you ought to be, but sometimes schools borrow the texts to provide to students and have to return them at the end of the semester.) The schools have to pay to get the accessible formats — this can be as easy as having a publisher mail an electronic copy of the book or scanning a book without images, diagrams, columns, etc., and running it through OCR software, or as difficult and expensive as having a book with a lot of visual elements Brailled.

In many subjects, digital versions of texts are as accessible as Braille versions, but math, for instance, is one area where I don’t know anyone with experience who claims that there is any alternative to Nemeth Braille that comes close to providing the same level of access.

To qualify for accessible texts, you’d have to provide a copy of an evaluation, in English, explaining your need for the Brailled versions. That means that for people coming from many areas, the evaluation would end up being paid for here, and since most of us do not qualify for government-funded health care that’s a burden you might not have to assume if you want to study in some other countries. On the other hand, blindness is a lot easier (and cheaper) to establish than a number of other conditions that affect one’s ability to access print. So if you want to study in one of the above fields and you are already in the US or you can get to the US to study, there are at least options.

How do blind people from Asian and Middle Eastern Countries read using braille?

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:34:09 +0000

Braille was designed for letters of the Latin alphabet. However, Countries like China, Japan and Tibet use a completely different writing system. If so, do these countries that do not use the Latin alphabet have different braille system that they use to enable blind people read the characters? (especially as there are over 10,000 characters in these languages.)

There are many braille alphabets, designed for Arabic, Chinese etc. They are combinatory, just as we transliterate characters into pinyin for Chinese, so characters are transliterated into Braille.

Check out some of the details here:

http://www.fblind.org/eng/Arabic_Braille.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_braille

Pokemon Ruby Braile Puzzle question?

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:48:40 +0000

Well I never Got to solve the Braile Puzzle does anybody have a save file up for download

Just Before you have to do the Braile Puzzle

So i can do the Braile Puzzle

Many thanks

-Emporian

The Sealed Cavern
To open the tombs of the three Regis, you must first unseal the Sealed Cavern.
To do this, capture a Relicanth to put as first poke and Wailord as your last poke. After you’ve done this, fly to Pacidflog Town, and surf towards the fast currents, staying low.

Eventually, you’ll find an area you can dive in, that the currents try to push
you away from. This can take some practice, but keep trying to make it into
that calm water area. Dive down and enter the Sealed Chamber.

Go to the back, and read to Braille wall. The wall will tell you to use Dig.
Use dig in the middle of the wall and a door will appear. Enter and read the
Braille on the wall there. There will be an earthquake and the game will say
something along the lines of "It sounds like something opened somewhere".

~!~Regirock~!~

Now that the tombs are open, its time to hunt down the first of three Regis,
Regirock. You remember the sandstorm area next to Lavaridge right? Go there. In
the Southeast corner of the desert, you’ll see a conspicuous mountain type
thing, surround by rocks. There will be a door in the large rock, enter. Read
the Braille and then go two steps to the right, and two steps down. Use
Strength. The Braille wall should open. Walk in a talk to Regirock to initiate
the fight.

~!~Regice~!~

Now that you have Regirock firmly in tow, time to head off and capture Regice.
Regice can be found North of Dewford. Surf to the left of your screen until you
find an island with a similar setup as Regirock’s desert tomb. Enter the door
and read the Braille. Read it again. Now wait. Patience is a virtue, and it
might take a couple of minutes, but the door will open. Enter, talk to regice
and prepare for battle.

~!~Registeel~!~

Registeel is, in my opinion, the most difficult Regi to find. First, you must
be at the entrance of the Safari Zone. Go to the left, and keep going until you
see a staircase. This will lead you into a rainy area. Once you’re there, you
can find the tomb where Registeel is located. Go in and read the Braille. Now
move to the center of the room and use Fly. The door should open.

Why is there braile in a drive thru atm when blind people can’t drive?

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:24:27 +0000

no it’s not for the passengers. it’s because ATMs are all manufactured the same, with braille. making special ones without braille is unnecessary, more expensive, and just more hassle. who cares if it’s there?

Why do they put brail letters in the drive thru ATM?

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:35:44 +0000

Why do they put brail letters in the drive thru ATM?

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They don’t. They put Braille on the keypads. They are the same keypads used INSIDE where blind people are likely to go. They don’t make special keypads without Braille for OUTSIDE ATMs.