Learn About Louis Braille and the Braille Method of Reading and Writing

The Louis Braille Online Resource provides information about Louis Braille and the braille code he created.
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​Louis Braille was fifteen years old when he developed his raised dot method of reading and writing. He called it "my alphabet." His alphabet is now called braille in honor of the young man who devised it. It has been ​adapted to hundreds of languages and ​dialects throughout the world.​​  ​

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​Read about Louis Braille

       See ​pictures of Louis
​       Braille's home town

   
   

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​     Learn to read braille words

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Learn how to write braille: slate and stylus, Perkins brailler, ​​computer

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​"Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals — and communication is the way we can bring this about."  
       Louis Braille, 1841