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When Gaetono Williams got bored with his weekly spelling words this year, his mother asked teachers to add more challenging ones.
It might be time to turn up the difficulty level: The Watkins Glen Elementary School third-grader received a 14-volume braille dictionary set Tuesday from the Watkins-Montour Rotary and Lions clubs.
“This is great,” the 9-year-old said, adding that he is proud of himself for working hard to become a good reader.
Gaetono has a genetic disorder. He started losing his eyesight at age 6 months and had lost all vision by age 21/2, said his mother, Genevieve Williams of Watkins Glen. He has a growing collection of braille books at home, mostly donated, she said.
“He loves to read, especially mysteries and Junie B. Jones books,” Williams said.
The Rotary Club donates dictionaries each fall to third-graders in Watkins Glen and Odessa-Montour schools. “This year, the Watkins Glen principal, Rod Weeden, called and said, ‘We have a blind student. What do you think about donating a braille dictionary.’ We were very on board with that,” said Rotary President Michelle Benjamin.
Benjamin said it’s the first time recently that the two clubs have collaborated. Weeden, a Lions Club member, called it a good match: Rotary has its dictionary project and the Lions’ cause is eyesight. The two clubs split the $600 cost of the American Heritage Children's Dictionary.
“I think it is wonderful and I am greatly appreciative,” Williams said, adding that she could not afford it as a single mother of three with a home-based business.
Gaetono is the school’s only blind student, has an aide and uses a cane, Weeden said. The school orders braille textbooks for him and has a machine that converts daily worksheets for students into braille.
Gaetono, who said he wants to be either a police officer or writer, read from the dictionary Tuesday. “Children with sight would have some trouble with the words he read in braille today,” Weeden said.
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