Comments on: Louis Braille’s 200th birthday https://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=128 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: tony https://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-2735 tony Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:47:28 +0000 http://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=128#comment-2735 Louis Braille can we use this image to help raise funde for bolton society for the blind on a visual awareness fund raising day at bolton community college.

]]> By: Donna Hill https://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-1541 Donna Hill Fri, 01 May 2009 15:00:34 +0000 http://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=128#comment-1541 I am curious about Braille literacy around the world. Here in the US, only ten percent of blind children are being taught to read and write Braille — down from fifty percent in the ’60s. It’s less for blind adults. A recent study shows that of the mere thirty percent of working-age blind adults who have jobs, over eighty percent are Braille readers. Our Congress has acknowledged this problem by authorizing the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar. Congress chooses two non-profits each year to help fund with a commemorative coin. The Louis Braille coin funds the “Braille Readers Are Leaders” campaign of the National Federation of the Blind, which seeks to double the number of blind children learning Braille by 2015.

http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Braille_Initiative.asp
I’m working on a series of articles about it for the online magazine American Chronicle. Many of our low vision children are forced to accept lower levels of achievement and struggle for hours to use large print. Is it just us?

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