My name is Elmer and I am 12 years old. I am blind. I am in 7th grade and enjoy going to school. I like it because I always learn something new. I also like school because I have friends there. My friends and I have many things in common: we like the same kind of music, we laugh at the same jokes, and we dislike the same TV shows. I help them with their homework when they don’t understand a new subject, and they help me when I have to work with visual materials like graphics. My friends use pencils and pens, notebooks and print textbooks to do their class work. I use a manual brailler called Perkins, an electronic note taker, and braille textbooks. I also use electronic texts. My friends use their eyes for reading. I use my hands and my ears. But at the end, we learn the same things.
Know Elmer
