[duxuser] Dilema, How to Train Sighted Staff to Do Braille using DBT

  • From: "Ray E. Campbell, DCIL" <raydcil@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:43:32 -0500

Hi All:

I am currently working for a Center for Independent Living here in DuPage
County, Illinois.  We have a Juliet Pro Braille Embosser and run DBT.  As an
expert Braille reader and technology guru, I've learned how to use DBT to
produce some Braille materials for our center such as newsletters and
flyers.  Here is where I need help.

I would like to know of successful strategies any of you have used to teach
other staff who are not familiar with Braille how to format Braille.  I
don't want the staff here to always depend on me to do their Braille for
them.  In particular, our Deaf Services Coordinator has a consumer who is
deafblind and she needs to be able to generate information in Braille for
her.  Currently, if I am not available to do it, she has to wait for me to
run the Braille for her.

What works as strategies for training sighted staff to run materials in
Braille?  Are there people in the Chicago area that any of you know of who
could come in and give our staff an in-service on how to produce Braille?
Are there good handbooks and materials we could obtain for our staff to help
them understand how to format things in Braille using DBT?

Any help or ideas any of you have will be appreciated.

Ray Campbell, Independent Living Skills Coordinator,
Visual Services
DuPage Center for Independent Living
630-469-2300 (V), 630-469-2606 (F)
raydcil@xxxxxxx

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