Contracted Braille

Course ID: CBR-221

Audience
Professional Education Program

Course Description
Whether you're a parent of a schoolchild who is blind or you are working in the blindness field, your ability to read and emboss contracted braille will enhance your relationship with your child or client. The goal of this course is to enable you to visually read and emboss contracted braille.

Media
The course is available in print.

Organization
27 lessons

Credit
6 CEUs

(Note: tactile learners seeking professional continuing education credit should enroll in Braille Reading 2, EBR-281, for the equivalent 6 CEUs)

Prerequisite
Successful completion of "Introduction to Braille" or adequate competency as determined by the braille diagnostic test

Overview
Twenty-seven assignments are submitted to the instructor.

Grading
Letter grades

Average Completion Time
Approximately 1 year

Objectives and Content

After completing Lesson 1, you will be able to read and braille alphabet whole-word signs.

After completing Lesson 2, you will be able to read and braille 10 short-form words.

After completing Lesson 3, you will be able to use five whole- and part-word signs.

After completing Lesson 4, you will be able to read and braille eight additional short-form words.

After completing Lesson 5, you will be able to use six whole- and part-word signs.

After completing Lesson 6, you will be able to read and braille nine additional short-form words.

After completing Lesson 7, you will be able to correctly use dot (5) initial-letter contractions.

After completing Lesson 8, you will be able to correctly use seven part-word signs.

After completing Lesson 9, you will be able to read and write nine additional short-form words.

After completing Lesson 10, you will be able to use

a. single and double italic signs
b. the letter sign
c. the ellipsis and the dash

After completing Lesson 11, you will be able to correctly use dot (45) initial-letter contractions.

After completing Lesson 12, you will be able to use two lower-cell signs as whole and part words.

After completing Lesson 13, you will be able to read and write nine additional short-form words.

After completing Lesson 14, you will be able to correctly use dot (456) contractions.

After completing Lesson 15, you will be able to use four whole-word lower-cell signs.

After completing Lesson 16, you will be able to read and write seven additional short-form words.

After completing Lesson 17, you will be able to correctly use

a. the fraction line
b. the cent and percent signs
c. the symbols and abbreviations for inches and feet, and the abbreviations for meters and centimeters

After completing Lesson 18, you will be able to correctly use dot (6) contractions.

After completing Lesson 19, you will be able to correctly use the three whole-word, lower-cell contractions to, into, and by.

After completing Lesson 20, you will be able to read and write eight additional short-form words.

After completing Lesson 21, you will be able to correctly use dot (56) contractions.

After completing Lesson 22, you will be able to correctly use

a. the signs for part words be, con, and dis
b. the sign for part word com

After completing Lesson 23, you will be able to read and write the eight short-form words that begin with be.

After completing Lesson 24, you will be able to correctly use

a. inner quotation marks
b. the accent sign
c. brackets
d. the slash

After completing Lesson 25, you will be able to correctly use dot (46) contractions.

After completing Lesson 26, you will be able to correctly use signs for part words ea, bb, cc, dd, ff, and gg.

After completing Lesson 27, you will be able to read and write the eight additional short-form words.