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| What is Braille? Braille is a tactile code developed by Louis Braille to represent letters of the alphabet and used by persons with visual impairments. There are several forms of Braille, including the most common, Literary Braille. Additional codes have been developed for musical notation, work in math or science, and computers. Foreign languages have their own codes as well. Louis Braille of France was blinded in a childhood accident. At the age of 15 he modified a military system for reading orders at night without showing any light (night writing), inventing Braille. Braille originally lacked an encoding for the letter W. Braille is a code. To learn more about Braille, please visit the following websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille http://www.afb.org/braillebug/ http://www.braille.org/ http://www.brailler.com/braillehx.htm http://www.indynerds.com/braille01.htm http://www.dotlessbraille.org/index.html http://www.hadley-school.org/CourseDetails.asp?course=IBR111 |
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