Aloha all,
I have to agree with Charlene. I have spent many an hour working with
agencies that want to "save money" by doing their own braille. The last
agency I worked with had purchased an embosser that couldn't have been
slower, they use MacIntosh computers, and knew nothing about braille. It is
an ongoing nightmare.
Laters...
Betsy
At 04:28 PM 4/22/2003 -1000, you wrote:
This topic caught my attention. Periodically, I've been asked if I could spend an hour teaching somebody how to use DBT so that they could do all of their own brailling. They don't know braille very well maybe just the basics like the alphabet. I've just kind of shook my head at it since I think it really is more involved than that.
George, you're so right, though, if people would just keep their documents clean and simple, most of the battle would be over with.
Charlene
-----Original Message----- From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray E. Campbell, DCIL Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:44 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
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