getting brailler kid friendly for kinder

Today R and I had an appointment with his new kindergarten teacher.  So we decided to decorate his brailler, which will be at kinder for him to use there.  As you can see it is a very industrial looking machine, quite alien amongst modern technology.  Not that this bothers R, but I thought it might be good if it looked a little more kid friendly so that other kids weren't freaked out by it.  We had fun anyway.

 

Braille at a glance

just thought that a little bit of braille info might be a good place to start:
here is a place to see what the braille alphabet looks like, and here is a place to go to to learn more about Unified English Braille code, which is currently used in only about 5 countrys, including Australia (2005 - 2010), New Zealand, and Canada, UK (2011) and Nigeria but is about to be adopted (slowly) (but not fully) by the US.  This is useful to know because it means that any books purchased from the US are likely to be in a slightly different braille code to what R is learning.

Learning as we go

this blog has evolved before it has even been publshed.  first thought about putting it together to keep my long distance family up to date, so that holidays were not taken up with explaining the ins and outs, and can get down to the fun stuff. 

But gradually I have come to think that it will be much more fun to document, share, and seek out other examples of the sorts of creative adaptations we all make to help our children be a part of this big wide sensational world we live in.  So although I may still go off and list lots of other info, I will try and keep the focus as creative as possible.  Hope that others can share their wisdom and experience, and bring new ideas to all of us in need of inspiration.

So Welcome to our Sensational World
Terrisue