On 11/2/14, Arvind A <[email protected]> wrote: > bhyavya you are bright and extraordinary so please do not only consider > your example when discussion is regard to inclusive and special > education. this > is a great topic. we wish to have views of masses and not just affluent. > this > is a good healthy discussion so do not take every post is against and for > you with your response for every sentences in the text. and also bhavya > please do not criticize and promote ngos. there are very young > organizations and others serving blind since many decades. there are rich > organizations serving only affluent and others serving masses with their > reach across india. you are very very young but others list members here > are having great experience and understanding of ground reality. when you > discourage braille and promote only laptop consider power issue once you > are out of metros and unavailability of basic facilities in > families/schools having blind child. you have put across your views. Whatever I have written in this discussion, all those are my opinions and views. I apologize if anyone was hurt by them. I do not encourage 'only' technology and 'completely' discourage learning of Braille. Let me be more clear on my views. I feell that technology is a more efficient method of note taking, because, all sighted people can read and review the work on computers and most cannot read and review Braille, Netbooks are portable devices while Braillers are generally not, and when I make a comparison of the blind people I know studying in grades lower than me, those who are using laptops are happier than those who are using Braille. Through a Parents Support group, my mother also got a call from a mother who said that her son who studies in JKCN (a really posh school in Mumbai) struggles, and she said that her son was using Braille and had a shadow teacher. My experience about education for the blind is limited, okay, but probably my experience will be accurate and current in terms of today's inclusive education, since my comments are based on personal experience. I am not criticising NGOs, but just requesting them to adapt the newer technology, and use them in conjunction with Braille, rather than using only Braille. Please understand that I am not affluent, I only have a laptop of my own, caring parents and support from a great organization, no additional device or tutor. Also, when you use the Reply feature in GMail webmail instead of the Quick Reply, you have to use in line posting, i.e. posting in answer to a particular piece of text. Also, I am not answering to each post, only to thos where I think I have something to say. I apologize again if I have hurt anyone.
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