Hi Ray I have been writing tutorials for our staff and I'd be glad to send them to you privately. If you'd like them, please email me off list and I'll send them along. Ann Foxworth, Computer Braille Specialist Texas Commission for the Blind 4800 N. Lamar BLVD Suite # 130 Austin, TX 78756 PH: (512) 377-0654 -----Original Message----- From: Ray E. Campbell, DCIL [mailto:raydcil@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:44 AM To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] Dilema, How to Train Sighted Staff to Do Braille using DBT 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 * * * * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list archive * is also located there. * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com * * * * * * * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list archive * is also located there. * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com * * *