How Do Blind People Read?

There was a time ago when most people thought blind people could never learn to read. People thought the sole thanks to reading were to see at words along with your eyes. A young French boy named Braille thought otherwise. Blind from the age of three. Young Louis wanted to read. He realized the vast world of thought and ideas that were locked bent on him because of his disability. And he was resolute to seek the key to the present door for himself, and for all other blind persons.

Louis Braille was born in 1809, in a tiny village near Paris. His father made harnesses and other leather goods to sell to the opposite villagers. Louis’s father often used sharp tools to chop and punch holes within the leather.

One tool he won’t two make holes was a pointy awl. An awl could be a tool that appears sort of short pointed stick, with a round wooden handle. While fidgeting with one among his father’s awls, Louis’ hand slipped, and he poked one in all his eyes. the injury didn’t seem serious the wound became infected. Some days later young Louis lost sight in both his eyes. The primary few days after becoming blind were very hard But because the days elapsed, Louis learned to adapt to situations and to guide an otherwise normal life. He visited school with all his friends and did well in his studies. He was both intelligent and artistic. He wasn’t visiting, let his disability slow him down one bit.

As he grew older, he realized that the tiny school he attended failed to have the money and resources he needed. He heard of a college in Paris that was especially for blind students. Louis did not have to debate about going. He packed his bags and went off to seek himself a solid education.

When he came across the special school for the blind, he asked his teacher if the college had books for blind persons to read. Louis found that the college had books for the blind to read. These books had large letters that were raised up off the page. Since the letters were so big, the books themselves were large and ponderous. The books were expensive to shop for. the varsity had fourteen of them.

Louis set about reading all fourteen books within the school library. He could feel each letter, but it took him an extended time to read a sentence. It took some seconds to achieve each word and by the time he reached the tip of a sentence, he almost forgot what the start of the sentence was about. Louis thought there must be a stronger way.

There must be a way for a handicapped person to feel the words on a page. There must be how for a handicapped person to read as and as easily as a sighted person. That day he set himself the goal of thinking up a system for blind people to read. He would try and think about some alphabet code to create his ‘finger reading’ as quick and simple as sighted reading.

LOUIS BRAILLE
(4 January 1809
- 6 January 1852)

Now Louis was a tremendous creator. He learned to play the cello and organ at a young age. He was so talented and an organist that he played at churches everywhere in Paris. Music was really his ex. It also happened to be a gentle source of income. Louis had great confidence in his own creative abilities. He knew that he was as intelligent and artistic as the other person his own age. And his musical talent showed what quantity he could accomplish when given an opportunity and in some unspecified time in the future, chance walked within the door. Somebody at the varsity heard about an alphabet code that was being employed by the French army. This code was wont to deliver messages in the dark from officers to soldiers. The messages couldn’t be written on paper because the soldier would strike a match to read it. the sunshine from the match would give the enemy a target at which to shoot.

The alphabet code was made from small dots and dashes. These symbols were raised up off the paper so soldiers could read them by running their fingers over them. Once the soldiers understood the code, everything worked fine.

Louis got hold of a number of this code and tried it out. it had been far better than reading the large books with gigantic raised letters. But the military code was still slow and cumbersome. The dashes took up plenty of space on a page. Each page could only hold one or two sentences. Louis knew that he could improve this alphabet in how.

On his next abode, he would spend all his time acting on finding some way to create this improvement. When he arrived home for varsity vacation, he was greeted warmly by his parents.

His mother and father always encouraged him on his music and other school projects. Louis sat right down to give some thought to how he could improve the system of dots and dashes. He liked the concept of the raised dots but could do without the raised dashes.

As he sat there in his father’s leather shop, he picked up one among his father’s blunt awls. the concept came to him during a flash. The very tool which had caused him to travel blind might be accustomed make a raised dot alphabet that might enable him to read.

The next few days sixteen-year-old Louis spent acting on an alphabet made up entirely of six dots. The position of the various dots would represent the various letters of the alphabet. Louis used the blunt awl to clock off a sentence. He read it quickly from left to right. Everything made sense. It worked...

Louise Braille isn’t anymore, but then the system he invented goes marching on to assist the blind overcome their handicap and to enable them to compete with those people lucky enough to possess the gift of sight.