Page 6 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 9, 195 BLIND GIRL FINDS NO DIFFICULTIES WITH NORMAL CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES By Irene Stangoe jmaps are in Braille and she can arry on normally with the rest |of the class. In some subjects | however, she must take home notes that her mother will transpose into Braille on the Braille writer. \(Mrs. Peterson Serving the Cariboo INSIST ON . FRESH MILK DAILY 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. DUTCH DAIRY FARMS USE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED As you walk down the long corridor of the Wil- liams Lake Elementary School, the muffled sounds of normal school activity drift out from behind the closed doors. But from a room at the end of the hall suddenly comes the startling sound of a clack- ing typewriter interspersed by the voice of the taught herself Braille when teacher. . Diana started school’ in Van- It is in this room that a new/ |couver, so she could write experiment for Williams Lake/Not have been more fortunate letters to her daughter.) schools is taking place. It is in than to have Mrs. W. Sharpe as|__ this room that a young blind her home-room teacher in this | [DEPENDENT girl is receiving her education | st yt Her mother spends Diana is an extremely in- along with normal sighted child-/from haltan-hour to two hours dependent child and makes her ren, And it is in this school/each night helping her daughter | way around the school and play: that 392 heildren are in turn) transpose her notes into Braille. ground without assistance. She learning to accept her handicap) And young Diana herself is such | js very popular with the boys with ease and unconcern. a happy bright child that princi-| ang girls and they all want te , , pal Ken Kingwell declares, “It is| help her. In fact, Mrs. Sharpe Diane Peterson, nine-year-old |an honor to have her.” says that “the biggest worry i daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl cory to keep the children ¢ - Peterson of Williams Lake, is|PMILIAR SOUND ing her too much’ one of the very few blind child-| In preparation for the big} Mrs. Sharpe is willing to ad- ren’ who are receiving their|change, Diana spent halt-an-hour| mit that the problem of absorb- : ‘: education in an ordinary school|each day all last summer learn-|ing a blind youngster into a nor- ChecKing Diane Peter- and it appears that the experi-|ing to type on a regular type-}mal classroom “could be a bit SON'S typewritten work ment is going to be completely | writer, so that she could take her|difficult,". but Diana has so is her’ teacher, Mrs. W. one REQUAGT. successful. ; dinary Gr, . . Place in the ordinary Grade Four | much native ability that the task Sharpe, who is helping Live NORAD ire classroom. Mrs. Sharpe admits] is simplified. She feels that i i ir I NORM: LIFE tl ars - 8 the little blind girl to hat at first the sound of the}a teacher should not be afraid ; The pretty dark-haired young-| typewriter was quite distracting] of tackling it successfully take part in ster has been attending Jericho| or the other students, but now| Diana takes every subject, TOrMal classroom activi- Hill School for the Blind for the|it is an accepted part of their cal Ed. About ties. from art to phy: the only thing she cannot do is take part in relay races bast three weeks. Although|schoolroom life and they do not ~ there is no question about the/even glance around when the excellent and very necessary in-| familiar click-clack begins. struction she learned there in Braille and other courses, Diana’s} AS Mrs. Sharps announces a parents felt that they wanted |SPelling test, Diana deftly rolls their young daughter to have a|? Sheet of paper into her mach- normal family life. “Diana is|ine. quickly types her name and going to live with sighted people|‘he date at the top, and is ready | ayo tine Giub the Brownies (she|from this cause has now been al-| the rest of her life, so the sooner/2S soon as the other childven.|>cionsed to a blind Pack at the | most entirely eliminated | she moves out into the world, the,"“Halloween, beautiful, during. |v ncouver school.) and. the | easier it will be for her to ad-|"eceive, island, dollar, quick “a, | Junior Choir of St. Andrews just,” said her mother. she lists the words down. num-|tnited Church, She i naturally ie 4 ; {Dering exactly and each one | isical with a lovely singing But it is not as simple as it/evenly spaced. When she reaches -ol . sounds. The school in question [number 10, she rolls back the| “le amd she plays both piano muust_ be willing to accept the paper and starts another tis ng aceordian. : rt . She belongs to the Braille Book child and she must be assured of |along side the first one. Some- ” . td good teachers; the parents must|times if she we coe as (CD and the Talking Book Lib- ; - ie willing to give a lot of tine| ped a word correct she wit rare. aime Fetter are stories re And with the | Patience and with the school; and the child and do it again. eleven bie records Sts ofp ing in es tt, ke hi herself must be one who adjusts | g records, appear that she will take this easily. Only a few blind children) Diana's’ typewriter and her pring stNCe BIRTH big step in her stride ing to her. About three years! goes back and ago however, doctors discovered | every day on s./that too much of this lite-givir just like the rest of the kids. [oxygen could cause blindness in Happy out-going Diana does|these premature babies: the blood | not confine her activities to| vessels burst in the retina which school. She is a member of the|as it dried, wrinkled. Blindness has grown into a well-adjusted | spirited girl and there is no doubt that the love and understanding she received at home has played a great part in her happy develop- ment. A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE have tried the venture, and some Praiile books, which are very | Says Mr. Kingwell — “there is have had to return to the Van-|l#rge, are kept on a big table at/ Diana has been blind since no problem. We expect to have couver school. ‘the back of the room close ‘|birth. A premature baby weigh-|Diana as a permanent part of her desk, and she carries them|ing only three pounds, she was|our school and that she. will But on all counts, Diana is seck and torch as needed. Many! placed in an incubator with a. move on naturally with the rest | batting 100 per cent. 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