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Subject: Re: Braille usage with Dyslexia

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INGRID

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Date Posted: 08:03:58 03/25/05 Fri
In reply to: l 's message, "Re: Braille usage with Dyslexia" on 19:23:34 03/24/05 Thu

Thank you for your input. I greatly appreciate it. I am not suggesting a sight person should only learn through braille. I am suggesting that braille will help sight people who are not sight dominant.

I believe this would be true in people that their dominant sense is auditory or touch. A person who learns through music, touch and smell, even though have sight can increase their learning of a subject matter through braille.

Isn't it similar to a person who is bilingual? One of the languages will be dominant, however, the bilingual has an increase of knowledge of both languages. This increase knowledge of two languages helps the bilinguals to determine how to speak a particular phrase to one set of people and the same phrase to a different set of people. I believe sight sense is dominant simply because it is easier to convey information to a mass group of people but it is not necessarily the best way an individual learns. Learning is specific to each person. For instance, a person (not sight dominant) in a classroom where the studies rely mostly on sight suffers immense confusion and/or frustration academically and emotionally. If that same non sight dominant person can take the information taught (based on sight dominancy) and has that same information placed in braille and/or tape it will reinforce the learning experience for that person resulting experience success emotionally and academically. It would also result in the storing of the information in long term memory so that it may be applied. Unless you have an understanding of information, you will not be able to apply the information to life situations. Misapplication results in misunderstanding information.

In the medical field, a patient�s rights must be made aware to the patient. The patient must sign that they understand their rights. Many times those same patients say they did not understand their rights and it results in the patient winning the case or arbitration and the medical profession deemed negligible. Some of these rights are written in different languages in the attempt that the patient will understand. How can an English-speaking patient begin to understand their rights if the information is in Russian (unless, of course, Russian is the patient's other language)?

There are some great chances that sight people (not sight dominant) can enhance their learning by using braille for touch dominancy and/or tapes for auditory dominancy. The multi sensory structured language�s approaches come up short in helping people who are dominant in touch or auditory. Basically the main goal in using these approaches is to have all sight people be sight dominant. There is nothing wrong with sight dominancy . . . it's just that all people are not sight dominant and should not be forced to rely on sight only. For example, a left-handed person forced to do everything right-handed because we live in a predominantly right handed world. This results in the left handed person experiencing stress, confusion and frustration on all levels (academic, emotional and societal). The left-handed person having the chance to learn through their dominant learning style would experience success on all levels.

Using braille books with text could afford the non dominant sighted touch people, who sees numbers or letters backwards, a chance to feel the pattern of numbers and letters resulting in less backward letters and numbers on classroom assignments. Using the braille along with the sight information can solidify information thereby the information gets into the long term memory thereby they are able to apply the information because they will understand. Perhaps braille can assist with the ability to feel the information being seen.

I believe this subject warrants studies to be done. If there are studies already done on this subject then the findings should be disclosed to the public especially to the people who are struggling.

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