World Braille Day
World Braille Day celebrates the birth of
Louis Braille, inventor of the reading and writing system used by millions of
blind and partially sighted people all over the world.
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This is not a public holiday in any country,
World Braille Day provides an opportunity for teachers, charities and
non-government organizations to raise awareness about issues facing the blind
and the importance of continuing to produce works in Braille, providing the
blind peolple with access to the same reading and learning opportunities as the
sighted.
History of World Braille Day
Louis Braille, the inventor of braille, he was
born in France on January 4th, 1809, was a French educator and inventor of a
system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. Blinded
in both of his eyes in an accident when he was a child, Braille managed to
master because of his disability while still a child. In spite of not being
able to see at all, he excelled in his education and received scholarship to
France’s Royal Institute for Blind Youth.
During his studies, motivated by the military
cryptography of Charles Barbier of the French Army, he developed a system of
tactile code that could help the blind people to read and write quickly and
efficiently. Braille presented the results of his hard work to his peers for
the first time in 1824 when he was just fifteen years of age. In 1829, he
published his first book about the system he had invented, called “Method of
Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind
and Arranged for Them”.
Louis Braille died on January 6, 1852.
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