READING BRAILLE - LIVING BLIND

[anko361]

where can I buy a book in braille?

[debbieharry2010]

i have an invention for braille type in braille.mpeg on youtube thankyou

[ChaosFascination]

Do you read grade two braille? I can only read grade one.

[Riley0143rsj]

@thebremar

I'm not sure about blind, but I can lay my finger on a Braille letter and tell you what it is

I am sighted

[Riley0143rsj]

You read almost as fast as I do, and I'm sighted! Wonderful job :)

[BrilliantlyBecks]

Holy crap! LOL. You did so well! I'm learning it now. (:

[1990Stephanie2010]

@BrilliantlyBecks Thank you! :)

[shikakahh]

how can she read and answer the comments?

[DarkQuietWyattON]

@shikakahh Probably has the JAWSZ progrom or an aide. I have both.

[1990Stephanie2010]

@shikakahh I do have Jaws but it doesn't work on YouTube comments. I have my cousin type for me. :)

[djkevinsnorky]

Great job Stephanie! I am currently learning braille transcribing and came here to see how quick I really need to get someday! Wow, I have some work to do. LOL I just got through the alphabet A-Z but need to get them down rock solid. I have yet to get to punctuation, numbers, etc.

[TheBreMar]

Hello to all! In order to improve learning and reading Braille I need some informations from you people. I am considering an idea of making a device that will help blind people. So my question is very simple, do blind people have to move finger accross the "letter" (dots) in order to read it or they can read it simply by laying finger directly over letter? Thanks in advance!!!

[MelissaMerciful]

Thanks for sharing this video! You did such a great job! I am currently learning braille (moving onto Nemeth code in a couple of weeks). I admire you!

[furtivegain]

This video shows how amazing and adaptive the human mind can be. It blows me away, great work.

[jtb103123]

Wow... what a long interesting book you have there! By the way I know a little of braille and I'm learning more on youtube. I hope to be as good as you one day!

[1990Stephanie2010]

@jtb103123 Keep working on learning! :D Thanks for the comment.

[VisionlessOne]

Congrats on the Hadley school course. I still have to wait on that as I am currently on a waiting list through vocational rehabilitation here in Arizona. I may need to check into it personally as I am tired of waiting for the state to get me what I need. My only holdback right now on anything I need: money (seems like its tight all over)..

[MysteryoftheGods]

now THATS a book!

[holdencommstra]

blind people are acturly very good at reading not back but i feel sorry for blinds in my design technoglogy i'm designing a braillie keyboard

[frostwav]

@holdencommstra lol they already have something like that.. called a Braille Note, which is the latest that i know, I went to a camp that is only in my city (Wichita, Kansas) and we used actual laptops, everyone was visually impaired.. half were like blind, and half were like in between... and we got to keep the laptops... now visually impaired can go around using laptops easily and smoothly.

[elimmanna]

@1990Stephanie2010 are you actually blind? if you are, AWESOME!!! If you aren't you are still awesome because you can read braille

[frostwav]

@elimmanna you don't have to be awesome to read braille.

[carlwal01]

is it expensive to get books converted into brail?

[frostwav]

@carlwal01 no, look on google and type in Talking Books.. they can send you books free if you are visually impaired and have braille versions of any book. there are audiobooks and braille and large print versions..

[VisionlessOne]

@carlwal01

very! and space consuming as well. to convert 1 harry potter book to braille takes 14 volumes and costs upwards of $500 USD. I'd say OUCH unless the NLS provides a loaner copy. still, thats a huge mass of paper to put on the shelf. I really wish they had a braille version of the kindle.

[pantyflash]

Like, this video is hosed because its audio manifests severe artifacts of compression. Ensuing harshness is very painful for your audience. Way to go, babe!

[TheSunySky]

hi i've decided that a want to learn to read braille. although i am not blind i find braille facinating. have an tips on how to begin? i have done some research on books that may help me learn but i cant seem to find exactly what im looking for. any tips you have would be greatly appreciated!!!

[frostwav]

@TheSunySky go to google and type in Hadley School for the Blind, look for the hadley website and enroll into the school. the online enrollment is what im going to do, its easy and free, and you get your supplies and stuff within at least 2 weeks. i'm visually impaired and i really want to learn braille just in case i start to lost my vision again.. (I am losing some vision horribly but its still kinda slow process, for the most part i do not want to go blind.. but its better than seeing blurry.

[TheSunySky]

hi i've decided that a want to learn to read braille. although i am not blind i find braille facinating. have an tips on how to begin? i have done some research on books that may help me learn but i cant seem to find exactly what im looking for. any tips you have would be greatly appreciated!!!

[kingalien12345]

horrible sound quality....

[1990Stephanie2010]

Um... thanks.

[DMob888333]

wow, that was awesome. I've seen a stevie Wonder interview, and he was talking about sheet music written out in braille. How difficult was it to get to where you are now?

[1990Stephanie2010]

Well I've been reading braille sense kindergarten. It was kinda difficult to remember what combinations of the keys make what letters. For me reading it wasn't that difficult after a year or so. Though on occation I still get I and E mixed up and the letters h and j.

[gothexperiments]

@1990Stephanie2010 I have exactly the same problem with same letters!

[PebkaSkeemo]

I and E and F and D are the letters I get mixed up.

[frostwav]

@PebkaSkeemo I is 1 and 5, E is 4 and 2, and i can't remember what F and D are.

[veganfemale]

@frostwav

F is 1,2,4 and D is 1,4,5.

[PersonOfBook]

@1990Stephanie2010 Vow you can read and write messages on youtube as well, pretty cool!

[frostwav]

@PersonOfBook she may not be fully blind. but if she is there is something that she probably has heard called a Braille Note so she can hook up to the interent and it doesnt even look like a monitor but it is a monitor for the blind.. I got someting called System Access which is entirely new... which uses real computers and monitors.

[frostwav]

@1990Stephanie2010 Are you really blind? Have you heard of Envision? I was born blind with congenital cataracts, and had surgery a few weeks later.. i seem to be losing some of my vision here lately that i used to have.

[VisionlessOne]

@DMob888333

the younger you are, the faster you can pick it up. I'm middle 40's and going to learn it properly for the first time. it'll probably take me 3 years to get to where she is.

[frostwav]

@VisionlessOne i'm 14 and im going to enroll to the Hadley school for the blind, i'm not actually going to go to the building though, im going to do the 8 month course where i can learn by myself, so far its easy what i already know.

[browning52]

Thanks for demonstrating braille. I was wondering, it looks like you touch differet letters with each finger. It seems like touching more than one letter at a time would be confusing. I am trying to learn to help a friend.

Thanks again. For me, I can just read with one finger on a letter a time, but you do great.

[1990Stephanie2010]

actually I read with all my fingers on one hand thoe you're supposed to use two. Actually most of the time I read in grade two which uses contractions such as er, sh, and st. So it's not individual letters in that level. only the first level.

[Avrillavigne99]

i read grade 2 also... but i read with 1 finger lol i guess i just get lazy but i do read with 2 sometimes :) that book, i think i have it :)

[frostwav]

@1990Stephanie2010 Another comment to this comment, ugh grade 2 is hard for me i still can't get grade 2 numbers... i know like 2 contractions.. im going to enroll for The Hadley School for the Blind, I went to a camp called AT camp that this place called Envision was doing, I got a free laptop, and so did other visually impaired people especially fully blind.. something called System Access so the computer reads to people and can magnify, you can change the settings...

[jls1114]

your a very good ralle reader i knwo bralle too and im visually impared but i tink i have mroe signt so i normally do large pring or magnification of the computer cuz im nto fast a bralle at all.

[1990Stephanie2010]

I can't read large print which meant I had to learn Braille, I had no choice. As for my computer I use a screen reading program called jaws.

[katieb2393]

Thanks for this video. I've been trying to teach myself how to read braille for a while, but haven't had much luck. Are there patterns for words or do you read every letter individually?

[1990Stephanie2010]

In grade one yes you read the letters individually but In grade 2 you don't (there r 2 levels of Braille) Braille has patterns for learning Braille maybe google for them. Or you can go into Microsoft word type a letter then go to emboss, the letter u typed'll show up in Braille. A teacher and I discovered that about 3 months a go.

Good Luck!

[homejewel]

Thank you for this video. I wanted to show my children how blind people read using Braille. This was very helpful.

[1990Stephanie2010]

Your welcome. That's one of the reasons I post these videos so that people can understand and not just assume certain things. Basically what I'm trying to say is that I like teaching people that way they don't assume things that r not allways right and maybe teach them something new.

[johnnyfighter]

Do you have a computer that's made for blind people?

Or does someone help you and type what you want?

Just curious

[1990Stephanie2010]

I have a regular computer with a screen reader called Jaws on it

[SkyNetworkTV]

Do you use one or two fingers to feel and read the braille cells? What is your technique, are you using your other hand to help you keep track of what line or row you're on? Thanks for any tips you can give me.

[1990Stephanie2010]

I use one hand though technically your suppose to use two one that reads the braille and the second hand to follow the first hand but I never could master that technique. Hope this helps.

[Dabomb8273]

why is the book that you are reading so big?

[1990Stephanie2010]

Oh that's just the first volume of it. I think it is because you can't make Braille smaller or larger like you can print. At least that's what I think, don't know if it is all that accurate or not, I know the Braille smaller to larger thing is true but I'm not entirely sure if that's the whole reason. Thanks for the commeant.

[WindRider707]

This is too cool. I often touch the braille letters in public and try to feel them, my fingers are not able to distinguish the bumps very well. I can only compare it to things I have gotten really good at through practice, like tracking an animal - where most people don't even see a trail in the forest. Similar things happen in martial arts....thanks for sharing! One question; how do you read the computer? (as in this comment)

[1990Stephanie2010]

I have a computer program called a screen reader that is suposed to read everthing that's on the screen but it doesn't it only read about 60% of what's on the screen. It sounds like you are interrested in learning braille, if you are there is a pattern to the "dots" or as you call them "bumps" google for it if you want, how ever like minny things it takes lots of practice, if I'm wrong ignore this part. Thanks for your commeant!!!

[gizzer99999999999]

r u sure that u are reading that because ur fingers look like there are going over the page to slow about the speed that ur reading i have been reading for 29 years now

[1990Stephanie2010]

Yes I am reading it. I have had that  book for a while even though I've read it minny times it's impossible for me to remember every single word so yes I was really reading that. Thanks for the commeant!

[SmileyShigure318]

Thats cool. I once tried to learn braille but then i realized i shouldn't because i'm not blind. but yeah. thats cool.

[1990Stephanie2010]

you know that there's teachers that us how to read Braille and they're not blind? How do you think I learned Braille? it wasn't from a teacher who was blind.

[VisionlessOne]

@SmileyShigure318

Actually, if you have an interest, it wouldn't hurt to learn. It will definitely give you a skill up when you enter the job market. :)

[nikicalvaruso]

that was cool and that was my first time seeing someone reading braille . thanks ! i'm studying louis braille .

[1990Stephanie2010]

your welcome

[familyguyfan100]

Question: How do blind people feel the; letter's?

It's Very Interesting...I'm Really Curious.

[1990Stephanie2010]

With our fingers. They're very sensitive to touch especially after you've been reading for a long time. Like in years Hope this helps.

[GDATERRY]

They use their fingers.

[1990Stephanie2010]

Um, thank you very much. not meaning that rudely or anything.

[SHAKOORK]

what book is that?

[1990Stephanie2010]

not sure. I think it's "the call of the wild"

[FantasyFanatic911]

Your fast! It's so frustrating for me because I can't track so reading books in braille is so difficult to me, but If I read braille on a pac mate or Braille note, I can read really fast because I only have one line to worry about. Isn't that weird? It's so infuriating and I wish there was a way to make it easier or something. Do you have any creative ideas?

[1990Stephanie2010]

I can't think of any but you can probably google it maybe.

[WaterFor3st]

I want to learn Braille. I have a Helen Keller book that has the Braille alphabet on the back cover. I don't think it's good though.

[1990Stephanie2010]

you know there is a pattern to learning Braille and if you can google for it I'm sure you can find it

[argentum81]

It's such a coincidence that you happened to grab "Call of the Wild". It's actually the last book I read in Braille (I've only read 3). But I learned Braille as an adult, and I'm much slower.

Do you know of any other blind vloggers?

[1990Stephanie2010]

u might get faster at reading Braille and no I don't know of any blind vlogers, I haven't really looked either.

[afishlikeme]

Thanks for showing me how you read braille. it is really interesting.

[1990Stephanie2010]

YOur very wellcome.

[ca280491]

DAMN that book is huge !!!

[1990Stephanie2010]

yeah, i know

[bladedancer12]

awsome is it hard to read?

[1990Stephanie2010]

Sorry it took me so long to reply. It is hard to read until you learn it really well.

[CaptainCanada1399]

Hi...thank you for posting that...i was so impressed...how do you respond to comments? at what age did you become blind? how long did it take you to learn braille???

So many questions! you are awesome!

[1990Stephanie2010]

hi thanks for commeant. I have a computer program that reads everything on the screen it is mintioned in my Homework video as for the other two questions that you asked they're in my F A Q video feel free to leave more commeants and questions and check out my other videos if you'd like

Steph

[grapessss]

WOW!!!

I had no idea that you would read this fast. That is sooo incredible. I can't even imagine how you do that.. Keep 'em coming!

[1990Stephanie2010]

I've been tested and I am able to read at somewhere around 100 words per minute. Thanks for commenting and I will definately be making more!!

Steph

[grapessss]

amazing.. you're very smart. So, each individual letter has it's own braille formation and each word is spelled out?

[1990Stephanie2010]

some words have their own symbols, and some you have to spell out. theres a possiblity to have up to 6 dots in each letter and each letter have a different series of dots... its very confusing and hard to explain.

[nonew3]

It depends on what grade of braille you are reading in. The higher up the level, the more shorthand, or contractions, are involved in it, I think.

You are probably reading grade two braille, which has a lot of contractions, or making the words shorter by using special combinations of dots for things like ST, CH, ER, ED, ing, and etc., and having special combinations of letters for certain commonly used words.

Please correct me if I am wrong. I am very new to learning Braille, myself.

[1990Stephanie2010]

you're right that's why I have trouble spelling words like Little all though I don't misspell like (like) for some reason. I didn't say that in the video because it might confuse other people who didn't know what I was talking about, thanks for commeanting

Steph