Saturday, May 8, 2010

The Braille crisis - Arts & Culture - Macleans.ca

The Braille crisis - Arts & Culture - Macleans.ca


On Thursdays you can usually find me volunteering at The Braille Institute.


In an audio-book era, do blind children still need to learn to read?


In an audio-book era, do blind children still need to learn to read?


Braille is facing extinction, says Canadian newsweekly Maclean&s, thanks to strained budgets, audiobooks and text-to-speech. In the 1950s about half of all blind children learned Braille, says the U.S. National Federation of the Blind. ...


On Thursdays you can usually find me volunteering at The Braille Institute.

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