LOUIS BRAILLE ONLINE RESOURCE
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    • The First Ten letters
    • The Second Ten Letters
    • The Last Six Letters
    • Capital Letters and Punctuation
    • Braille Contractions
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      • Slate and Stylus
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View from LOuis Braille's childHOOD home in Coupvray, France 

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

charcoal portrait of Louis Braille
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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                                                                                                                                           Louis Braille
                                                                                                                                       charcoal portrait
                                                                                                                                 © Nancy Lucas Williams
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​Read about Louis Braille
       See ​pictures of Louis
​       Braille's home town
Six words in braille: fix, dog, cat, pet, hug, dig


   
   

 
​     Learn to read braille words
slate and stylus

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Perkins brailler
braille text on a computer screen
Learn how to write braille: slate and stylus, Perkins brailler, ​​computer


​"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
  • Home
  • About
    • Louis Braille Portrait
  • FAQ
  • Louis Braille
    • Valentin Haüy
    • Louis Braille
    • Royal Institute
    • A New Method
    • The Teacher
    • Last Years
    • Epilogue
    • Bibliography
  • Pictures
    • Hometown
    • Family Home
    • Birth Place
    • Father's Workbench
    • Father's Tools
    • Early Childhood
    • Monument >
      • With a Student
      • Bronze Bust
    • Louis Braille Museum
    • Slideshow
  • Braille
    • The First Ten letters
    • The Second Ten Letters
    • The Last Six Letters
    • Capital Letters and Punctuation
    • Braille Contractions
    • Braille Numbers
    • Writing Braille >
      • Slate and Stylus
      • Perkins Brailler
      • Computer
      • Braille Transcribing
  • Contact