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Braille was first invented as a way for soldiers to communicate with each other in secret without using lights or sounds BRAILLE is a writing system designed to allow the blind and visually impaired ...

KALAMAZOO -- Scott Davert is like a lot of other students at Western Michigan University -- he can't live without his PDA. He uses his to download books, to listen to MP3s, to check his e-mail and ...

You know the visually impaired “read” by touching and identifying a system of raised dots called Braille, but do you know how Braille is written? January 4 was World Braille Day, and the Workshop for ...

On 17 December 2019, the Officer in Charge of the UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, Mr Cvetan Cvetkovski, addressed the closing ceremony of the “First National Festival of Farsi Braille Writing: BrailleFa ...

1809: Louis Braille is born. He'll devise a tactile alphabet for the blind. 1813: Isaac Pitman is born. He'll devise a shorthand alphabet for quickly writing what people are saying. It's probably more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louis Braille, who was born on January 4, 1809, invented a tactile reading and writing system which transformed the lives of ...

Graeme Douglas has received research funding from a variety of research funding organisations, including: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), The Nuffield Foundation, Thomas Pocklington ...