Braille Course For Sight-Impaired Students

Bandar Seri Begawan - In an effort to help visually-impaired students, a course to on how to use the Braille code and Brailer Perkins was launched recently.

The course was conducted by the Special Education Unit, Ministry of Education and involved 12 teachers from several government schools who have passed the Braille Competency test from the New Zealand Royal Foundation for the Blind and are qualified Braille teachers.

Course coordinator, Cikgu Hj Roslan Hj Zulkefli, from the Unit said currently there are eight students across the country who have sight problems and they are following the course held every Thursday and Saturday throughout August, at the Special Education Unit in Gadong.

He added that such courses are being planned for the future to aid more students who have similar problems to better understand Braille, including their parents and teachers.

He conveyed his thanks to Standard Chartered Bank who sponsored the examination fees for all teachers sitting for the exams.

A teacher from Sekolah Menengah PAP Rashidah Lumut, Chin Shao Meng, said that only one student from a non-government school joined the course. The student has blurred vision and is wearing a 1,000-degree spectacles.

Chin is the only teacher from the Belait district selected to teach two groups of primary and secondary schools.

The teachers had previously taken the two-week exam with the passing mark of 90 per cent and above. According to him, the introductory course should be followed at an early stage to gain more knowledge and skills that are useful for parents, teachers and students. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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