Braille Boot Camp is four days of hands-on experiential learning focused on braille and tactile graphic production. Susan Mattson and Sharon Nichols will lead participants through both small group and individual activities to create braille and tactile graphic documents.
This is an ideal training for paraprofessionals and others who are beginners to braille and tactile graphics productions. Braille transcribers and TVIs who produce at least 40% of the braille for their students.Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.
Activities Include:
• Braille Document Production for Literary, Foreign Language, Mathematics and Technical materials.
• Tactile Graphic Production of one-page and multiple-page tactile graphics.
• Creation of Templates for basic shapes and Cartesian coordinate planes.
• Applying braille format and tactile graphic placement decision-making.
• Document conversion into editable text.
• Opportunity to work with graphic embossers and software programs used in producing tactile graphics.