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Show BOOK FOR CHILDREN Giant display telephone dwarfs even enlarged version of "We Learn About the Telephone" booklet, at left. The larger edition, along with a braille version, ver-sion, center, are provided by Mountain Bell for use by vlsualy handicapped children. Regular size booklet is at right. I Braille booklet I published free by Mountain Bell An enlarged and braille version ver-sion of the booklet "We Learn About the Telephone," a part of a communications program for the elementary schools, is available free ffrom Mountain Bell. The two special booklets are being used extensively at the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind, Ogden. According to Dee Severson, local manager for Mountain Bell, the booklet is associated Vith "Telezonia" a communications communica-tions and telephone program for the lower elementary grades, that was prepared with the guidance of elementary educators. ed-ucators. The program is designed to teach children tow to effectively effective-ly use the telephone and give them an undestanding of the science, history and social significance sig-nificance of communications. "The telephone is an important im-portant part of the visually handicapped person's environment, environ-ment, Severson said. We're pro-biding pro-biding the special booklets so that handicapped children can use the telephone effectively." The program is being used throughout the nation and is available to any school. |