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a language you read by hand, invented by a blind teenager who refused the dark.
means A system of writing and reading for the blind in which letters, numbers, and symbols are represented by patterns of raised dots felt with the fingertips.
from Named for Louis Braille, a Frenchman blinded in childhood by an accident with an awl in his father's leather workshop. As a teenager at a school for the blind in Paris, he adapted a military system of raised dots — devised so soldiers could read messages in the dark without light — into the elegant six-dot cell still used today. So the word is simply a man's surname turned into the name of the gift he left the world.
- inventor
- Louis Braille, blinded at three, finished it by fifteen
- origin
- adapted from a military code for silent night orders
- the cells
- six dots make sixty-three possible characters
- beyond words
- exists for music, math, and chemistry too
- speed
- skilled readers hit over a hundred words per minute
louis braille's alphabet — invented by louis braille in 1824, a 6-dot tactile writing system still used by blind people worldwide
braille institute of america — founded in 1919 in los angeles, provides braille services and education to over 70,000 blind and visually impaired people annually
unified english braille — standardized braille code adopted in 2018 by english-speaking countries, replacing former literary and technical braille systems