Project Math Access DVD 04 - Facilitating Inclusion - Part 06
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Audio Description: Part six; student interview; producing print math using the Braille Lite; follow up.

JOHN: Dr. Kapperman has taught me how to do braille math so that it would appear correctly on... for a sighted person... on the Braille Lite. Since then, let‘s see, it's been a couple of months now, and I've been using it every clay to complete my homework and it's working out real well, better than I thought, actually. 

For one thing, the aides are able, the assistants in the class that grade my homework are able to see number one my answers and number two the work that I have done to get the answers. And because they can see that and compare it to the teacher‘s steps that the teacher has written on the overhead, they can tell me exactly where I'm going wrong. 

See, previously, I had a problem where I was getting wrong answers but they couldn‘t tell me why I was getting the wrong answer. Now I'm able to show all of my work and keep all of my work in the file along with regular answers so that it wouldn‘t all appear as gibberish as it would have before. As I said earlier before, I used to write my answers, simple number, in grade 2 braille, which would make all the other stuff appear as gibberish. But now that they‘re seeing that, they are able to give me more input and I'm not making the same mistakes as often as I was before I began using braille math on the Braille Lite. 

I really don't find any problems with it. There is one little bug on my Braille Lite, which is if I have the “view in grade 2" feature on, if I'm looking a grade 1 file that I've downloaded from disk or something and I have “view in grade 2" on, it seems to make my math look a little bit weird. But I can just turn that off and that‘s really no big deal. Other than that, I can‘t really complain about it. I think it's great!