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“When the doctors t(!>ld | me my daughter was probably going blind, I determined to learn Braille and
be her teacher. I wanted to j
cushion the shock of know- j ing she might lose her sight, and to try to share the experience with her.”
Speaking is Mrs. Mary A. Fennell of Archer, Fla., mother j of five-year-old Lucille, who j has congenital glaucoma (hardening of the eyeballs).! The attractive blonde and j
blue-eyed child is also the vie- j tim of another birth defect ! which consists of malforma, tions of the lymph vessels J ! throughout her body.
“I’ve been warned,” Lucille’s i mother explains, “that if I make a mistake in her diet— such as using the wrong kind of flour in my pies—Lucille won’t be with us very long.” j
Mrs. Fennell told of her ef- j forts to learn Braille, and why, | at the Birth Defects Center at the University of Florida School of Medicine at Gainesville. The Center is one of 77 supported by the March of Dimes across the nation. *^t the suggestion of the Florida State Council for the Blind, Mrs. Fennell wrote to the Library of Congress for a book of Braille and teaching instructions. < Available at no cost for anyone declared legally blind.)
“I thought that was all there was to it,” Mrs. Fennell says. “I figured I’d just do a little studying and soon I’d be teaching Lucille how to spell by ‘feeling’ the raised dots. How mistaken I was!”
A person who has normal sight encounters far more difficulty learning Braille than the non-sighted. The reason is that the sighted individual relies on the faculty of sight rather than that of touch.
Lucille will not wrestle with
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