I have never met a person who learned Braille after puberty and was fast at
it.
Brain connections I guess.
Its sad how many partials were discouraged from learning Braille, or even
listening to books.
Books were never pleasurable to many of them, and they never reached their
full potential because of it.


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Harvey Heagy
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 8:25 PM
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Subject: Re: absolutely nothing to do with ham radio but Dayton made me
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I would think that would be a problem.  Lip reading may encourage deaf
persons to speak better, but whenever possible they should know both.  Like
in our community, I know high partials that never learned Braille because it
was thought they didn't need it, but what happens when they lose some or
maybe all of their sight?  All legally blind persons should be taught
Braille.
Harvey

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Chuck Lester
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 3:06 PM
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Subject: Re: absolutely nothing to do with ham radio but Dayton made me
think about it.

Harvey, I think the latter.  Unless the community of the deaf has changed
dramatically.  When I was an hr specialist with the Postal Service, one of
the programs I was in charge of was communications between a fairly large
contingency of deaf letter sorting machine operators and postal management
with regard to operational and hr related subjects.  Our interpreter always
used sign language.  She told me that lip reading is prone to much
misunderstanding, especially with words which are similar in shape but have
completely different meanings.  An example;  The Seinfeld episode where lip
reading causes nothing but misunderstandings all round.  There is a big
difference between six, and sex. The shape of the lips and tongue are the
same.  Get it wrong by lip reading and...

Chuck wa8vmo