Braille and blindness

08/07/2026

Summer holiday is waiting just around the corner and this week I'm working at home.

We're moving into the new school after the holidays - there are no furnitures yet, and the old school is empty - so therefore recent place of work is my diningtable✅️ Which luckily works out just fine😉
The past few days I've been focusing on math.

Image 1: In front of me I have the physical version of the math book, a printed version of the altered rtf book that my student has on her BS6, so I know exactly how she sees it, a printed sheet with instructions on which tasks are altered to match my student's blindness, suggestions for e.g. tiles, magnets and so on AND a book with tactile illustrations.

When working like this I go through the whole book one page at a time. I compare the physical version with the rtf version. I go through the instructions to each task. I mark which materials I already have for my student and make notes for my self on which materials I need to find this year.

I constantly consider how I make sure that she has all the things she needs in order for her to learn and understand the topic just as well as her friends.

Image 2: And also - as always - this results in me ending up with a bunch of yellow post-its with a countless number of to-dos, before I reach the point when I think my student has the same possibilities for learning as her classmates.

Considering the amount of post-its I think it's just fine that I still have 2 whole days until the summer holiday starts...🤷‍♀️😂😉🌞

If you have a job similar to mine - how do you work?

15/06/2026

Hi everyone😊
I know it's been a while since my last post here on "Braille and blindness" - but we've been busy with - well all sorts of things.
To mention just a few - we've been working with new skills on the Braille Sense 6, learning fractions in math AND learning how to walk on stilts.
All things required quite a lot of energy and concentration from both the blind and seeing part in our team😅✅️

Some time ago I got a call from Aaron from the podcast Aaron's Opinion and we recorded this episode last week.

In this episode I try to tell you everything about how seven years ago I was so lucky, that a 3 yr old blind girl entered the kindergarten I was working at.
How I got to follow her all the way through kindergarten and into school, where we're about to enter 4th grade right after the sommer holiday.
How I try to make a new approach on the work with blind children by the help of everyone around them, how to sometimes make the impact of being blind appear less and how to make learning materials from scratch.

I hope you'll enjoy listening to our talk - and follow Aaron, because he adresses some very important issues in the blind community all around the world through the podcast🤩

Hi everyone.I'm Britta from "Braille and blindness" here in Denma...

26/01/2026

Happy New Year to everyone☺️🎆
I'm back with new ideas, new inspiration and new thoughts and looking forward to sharing with all of you 😊

This is a small throwback to New Years Eve 24/25, but it fits just as well for opening 2026🎉

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Opening this year with a "New Years drawing" that my 8 yr old, blind student made in art class.

She used her Tactipad and a sheet of drawing plastic. So when drawing with a pen the lines and raised enabling her to see the picture.

She likes to draw and I love to see, how she uses my verbal guidance; how she have a great time with friends while drawing, talking and showing each other the drawings; how she gets better at placing the sheet, making the right shapes; searching the sheet to draw on the right spot; aligning the motives in the drawing; learning to make her hands and fingers cooperate in the process - and so many more things🤩

I transfer the drawing onto a piece of paper highlighting the lines with my 3D liner, so she can see the differences in the two drawings - what she intended to draw and what she actually draw, as a way of showing her her own progress.

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1. A New Years drawing showing two rectangular houses at the bottom of a sheet of drawing plastic. Above the houses, high up in the sky, are two new years rockets exploding into beautiful balls of fireworks 🎆
2. Same drawing. This one on a piece of paper where I used my 3D liner to highlight the lines.
3. In Dk it was raining on New Years eve and my student added lots of raindrops to the paper, using a pencil making small dots on the back of the paper, so she can feel the rain when touching the paper.

I hope you'll continue following is in here.
Happy New Year 😊