[nfb-talk] How to get Chapter members interested innfb literature

[Bonnie Ainsworth]

Another thing to consider is that some senior citizens who have gone through 
the orientation centers are diabetic.  Some have no feeling in their fingers 
and cannot read the regular Braille.  However, the person I'm remembering 
has managed to read jumbo Braille.  That's not encouraged at the center in 
Nebraska, but that was the only way this person learned to read.  While some 
alternatives, even Braille, work for some people, but not necessarily for 
all.  Where senior are concerned, they shouldn't be put into a box in my 
opinion.


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literature


I agree Marilyn that sometimes what we do with blind seniors is going to
be different than what you'd do with someone who is blind and very young.
Generally, someone who is young is going to have an easier time learning
certain skills, and because you don't know yet what they're going to do
with their lives, you really try to cover everything.  It takes time, but
you do it because you don't know what skills they're going to need, so you
want them to have everything.

As a person ages, you know the things they're going to use and focus on
just those things.  For seniors, sometimes there's just one or two things
they can't do anymore and they want a solution for just that.  You give
them one, and they're happy.  Others want more, but even then you really
should think about what will be the most useful to them the soonest..

Audio may seem like a slower way to get information, but it's there, it
works, and it's got the lowest learning curve.