Chapter 28

Louis Brailleʼs Gift to the Visually Impaired

William James Maloney

Abstract

Louis Braille was born in France in the early 1800ʼs. Braille suffered an accident in his fatherʼs workshop which severely damaged one of his eyes. An infection ensued and spread to the other eye causing the child to become completely blind by the age of five. As a young man, Braille developed a system of reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired. He based his system on a highly imperfect system of night reading developed by the French military. Today Brailleʼs system is accepted and implemented worldwide.

Total Pages: 160-163 (4)

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