For WRITING lessons: The TVI or the parent can read sentences aloud for the student to write on the braillewriter.It allows the child to begin to recognize the contractions.Ĥ) Sentences should definitely be read more than once.ĥ) Once the child is able to read the sentences comfortably, they can review sentences before the next day’s lesson. This helps the child feel comfortable and confident. Parents can do the following to support their children:ģ) Begin by reading the sentences out loud first, as the student reads along, so the student knows what he/she is going to read. Or, of course, if the parent has the print book at home, the parent can reinforce the lessons. The TVI would need to have a print book at home. For READING lessons: Using a braille book at home, the child can read sentences to you (TVI) over speakerphone or with a headset on the phone, or you can use FaceTime, or any other remote method you can think of.Suggestions for reading or writing lessons that can be used by teachers or parents: Parents will need to know a little bit about the structure of the braille cell (dot numbers) and basic information about contractions. *IMPORTANT: Parents do NOT need to know ALL of the rules of braille to work with their child.
We can ship the books separately to the students and/or the TVI, depending on what you feel best suits your particular circumstance. All you need is to have the student’s braille books at the child's home and the print or braille teacher's edition at your home. These books WILL make it much easier for the TVI to have braille reading and writing lessons, remotely. Everything is done for you! Lessons are planned in a very systematic way and the braille books are already embossed. Teachers are successfully using this book remotely.
The child can read by using a speakerphone or wearing headphones, leaving their hands free to read! Writing can be monitored by having the child use Perky Duck, or other suggestions, below. In closing, Perky Duck is a reliable and easy to manage tool that can offer real help in transcribing text to Braille using six-key entry.These books will make it EASY for the teacher to have reading and writing lessons REMOTELY. An efficient tool for Braille transcriptions The application enables you to configure output options, set baud rate, data and stop bits, punctuation type and much more.
It comes with a very large list of equipment models you can choose from and you can customize them to a large extent. When it comes to features Perky Duck might not offer that much or more of what you expected but in terms of embossing device compatibility, there are a lot of possibilities.
Compatible with a large number of embosser models The application makes it easy to work with Braille as long as you are familiar to it because otherwise, you won't get much out of it as it doesn’t offer any kind of embedded translation assistance. It’s also possible to view content in Braille or SlimBraille and you can switch between Braille language and print font views. You can save documents to your computer, print them directly from the application, copy content and navigate to a specific page, line or column number. Easily work with BrailleĪs far as features go, Perky Duck offers you the basic, must haves for applications of this sort. Installing the application simple with the only challenge being embosser model selection but even so, if you're not sure what to choose, you can opt for anything and change it later. Its main window is comprised of a large editing section and a tab that contains menus for various features. Perky Duck displays a simple and ‘straight to the point’ user interface which makes it a practical tool for anyone that is familiar to writing in Braille using six-key entry. It’s a simple and straightforward tool that enables you to create documents in Braille which can then be printed or embossed using specialized equipment.
Perky Duck is an application especially designed for students or people who want to transcribe text to the Braille language.