Topic > The Impacts of Braille Today - 1400

Imagine a life in the dark, not being able to see anything, not knowing what something as simple as a picture looks like. This is what blind people face every day. Blind people don't know what everything around them looks like, their mom, dad, anything. How do they read? Braille, blind people use it daily and without it they would need someone with them 24/7 to read everything, like bathroom signs. We explore braille and how it became what it is today by answering questions like: what was the need for braille, what was life like before braille, what was the impact of braille then, and what is the impact of braille today? The need for braille therefore is simple, the blind needed an easier way to read and write and there were many groups of people looking for ways to make the blind read. Louis Braille was part of a team and discovered this French "night writing" and then the idea for the six-point cell system emerged. The problem is that many people want to eliminate braille completely because “technology can do it for them.” It's like walking into a classroom of six-year-old students and telling them that they don't need to learn to read and write because technology will do it for them. It sounds silly, but blind children are told this every day. When children with vision loss learn to read, braille is the best way to develop spelling, grammar and punctuation skills. Audio recordings and computers that speak through a text-to-speech program provide access to all kinds of written tools, but they don't give new readers the tools they need to read and write on their own. Studies have shown that people with vision loss who can read braille are much more likely to get a job than someone who relies on v...... middle of paper ......te braille del everything even if braille can never be read eliminated because they need it to learn to write and use punctuation. Studies show that blind people who use braille are more likely to get jobs than those who don't use it. Braille improved education in many ways, it provided a system accepted by universities that helped make education for the blind more organized and successful, it was also the most compact system that made reading easier and more fluent. Previously, reading Braille was difficult for blind people because it was written in large pieces of wood and was very effective and slow. Many blind people ended up becoming beggars because their families couldn't support them and they didn't have the education to find work. And this answers the questions: what was life like before braille, what was the need for braille, what was the impact of braille then and now.