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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m interested in finding out about materials and strategies for a blind student who may want to learn German. My understanding is the student uses a screen reader but we don’t know which one yet. We don’t know if they read Braille.
We don’t know what course materials the professor uses yet, but we’re trying to begin learning about what might be involved with obtaining and converting appropriate materials.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I understand that popular screen readers can read German. I’ve looked through athen listserv’s archives and found a few relevant posts, although I probably could have searched further. I looked on Bookshare and found 74 results came
up under foreign language learning materials in German and available in the United States.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have additional advice? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Here are the links I found on this listserv in case anyone wants to know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-July/015345.html" title="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-July/015345.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-July/015345.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><a href="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-July/015325.html" title="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-July/015325.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-July/015325.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">“<span style="background:white">German contracted Braille for example is just as complex as our grade 2, and though I speak German I read the contractions with great difficulty. This is because
I only learned it for a year when I was nineteen so I’m terrible at it.</span><br>
<span style="background:white">But reading German by setting my display to use the computer Braille table is easy for me because it is just the alphabet and the special accented letters.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> <a href="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-November/015820.html" title="http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-November/015820.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2019-November/015820.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Adina Mulliken<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor, Librarian Silberman Social Work and Urban Public Health Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hunter College, City University of New York<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2180 3<sup>rd</sup> Ave. New York, NY<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone 212-396-7665<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pronouns she/her<o:p></o:p></p>
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