Hi yet again, Richard!  This is the last installment in the current series:   
      
   RW>  You'll always hear or read us stressing the term   
   RW>  "alternative" because utilization of "substitute"   
   RW>  connotes inferiority, not quite as good as.   
      
      
             Makes sense to me.  I did the same without thinking about it....  :-)   
      
      
      
   RW>  when we teach folks adjusting to blindness these   
   RW>  techniques we teach them with the student under   
   RW>  sleepshades, so that he/she learns them as a totally   
   RW>  blind person, and understands at the gut level that   
   RW>  the residual vision remaining is not the reason they   
   RW>  are successful using them.   
      
      
             Yes... sighted folk often shut their eyes when they are   
   concentrating on input from other sources, which your students must also do.    
   And they may be pleasantly surprised at how much they can hear after a bit of   
   instruction.  Our young friend & her mother were so thrilled when they noticed   
   their voices would sound different if they held a cushion close to their   
   mouths that they couldn't resist showing us what they'd learned.  To us as   
   musicians it may seem obvious. But we weren't born knowing these things... we   
   just paid our dues earlier.  ;-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)