Re: Schools for the blind, training centers, and how they perform.
@Aaron, the boy I mentioned with the theory about the lake, and the girl I mentioned who didn't like pouring liquid without the indicator were both from worcester where they went after they attended the same special school I did, Tapton mount school in Sheffield (the same one the blind MP David Blunkit went to).
I have heard worcester changed a lot when it was no longer managed by the rnib, though what it is like now I don't know.
@Afrim, thank you for a very interesting post. What I find fascinating is though, as you said the economic situation and likely the organization is very different in Albania to what it is in Britain, a lot of experiences were similar. For example, my specialist school, though we did have enoughb equipment for everyone to have a perkins brailler and to have braille books (albiet you never got a choice about what to read), did very much the same in terms of living in dormitries, having very static and set routines etc. Heck there were even bells for people to go and clean their teeth and a set rotor on when each person coul get to have a shower.
I don't know if the information technology business changed, but at the time in the early 90's when I was there there wasn't much by way of computers, heck even my so called typing lessons (which were so slow as to be ridiculous), were taught on a print type writer. I can say it is possible to learn braille in a normal school, but you need to learn from a teacher who knows braille. The issue I had was that the county counsel would only provide such a teacher once a week, and the rest was taught mostly by my mum, hence why I ended up going to the specialist school to learn braille, ineed I believe at the moment currently in Britain that is what is one.
Regaring physics an maths, well you can certainly write the equations on a laptop with speech provided you set your screen reader to read all the punctuation marks, inee this was how I id my phy sics and my A level biology. What however is harder is all the graphs, information in vertical tableles etc, which you probably do need some braille graph paper for, sinse though you coul generate them with computer programs, making sense of them would be more difficult without a fully tactile representation (one reason I still hope for a decent actile isplay for computers at some point).
Then of course there is creative teaching, my a level biology teacher was bbrilliant for that, one thing he id for example when i didn't quite get the atomic exchanginge in rrespiration was stick a tenis ball and a foot ball together to be the oxygen atom, then walk me aroun the room with the path through the lungs and the various reactions such happening along the way to give me a spacial sense of the graphical information of the set of chemical changes. He actually liked the iea so much he used it later for every class he taught .
@Cx2, fare enough on the living skills thing, it can't be easy to learn when you've done things ifferently constantly. For knife use, my coorination is also terrible but what I o is put my index finger up the blunt edge of the knife so I always know where it is. I Even did this in biology when wielding a scalpal and dysecting various bodily organs, the teacher used to say it gave him a heart attack to see my finger so close to the cutting edge of the blade but once I explained the reason I held the scalpal like that he understood the point.
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