Terri, when I saw your note, I became curious about this too. The only reference whatsoever to Grade 3 Braille in Wikipedia was a very obscure one which pointed to the idea that Grade 3 is never used for publication, but only for people's private notetaking purposes. I guess that since less than 10% of visually-impaired folks even read Braille any more, the attention is now shifting just to getting Grade 1 and Grade 2 into people's heads so they can be functionally literate on a baseline level.
I looked in National Braille Press' catalog, too, and found no publications whatsoever about Grade 3. That was shocking. But I did find the following book, which still appears to be available from American Printing House for the Blind. It was mentioned in an obscure posting on the Duxbury User Discussion List on Freelists.org: Key to grade three Braille / by L.W. Rodenberg, director of printing. Ordering Info Regular print. 1 v. (112 p.)Catalog #: 7-65860-00 Price: $35.00 Braille. 1 v. (80 p.) Catalog #: 5-65860-00 Price: $32.00 American Printing House for the Blind, 1839 Frankfort Avenue,P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, Ky. 40206-0085 PHONE: (502) 895-2405, Voice: (800) 223-1839 FAX:(502)899-2274 WEB ADDRESS: www.aph.org EMAIL: cs Description Author: Rodenberg, L. W. Note: "A revision of 'Alphabetical key to grade three,' (1926 edition)." Note: "Based on the text 'Revised Braille for reading and writing, Grade Three,' published in ink and Braille by the National Institute for the Blind, London, England, 1908." Note: "Embossed and printed for the Illinois School for the Blind, Jacksonville, Illinois." Isn't it amazing how far back Grade 3 goes? I'm rather surprised about this. Just goes to show you how seriously people took it in the early 20th century. -Kane If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-notetaker in the body of the message.
