THE STORY OF LOUIS BRAILLE Everyone has heard of the Braille system of reading for the blind. But few people know why it is called the “Braille” system or who Louis Braille was. In the year 1812, Louis Braille was a very small boy. He lived in a small town...
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THE STORY OF LOUIS BRAILLE Everyone has heard of the Braille system of reading for the blind. But few people know why it is called the “Braille” system or who Louis Braille was. In the year 1812, Louis Braille was a very small boy. He lived in a small town in France. Louis’ father had a small shop in which he made thing of leather. One day Louis was playing in his father’s shop and picked up a small tool with a very sharp point. Louis fell, the point of the tool entered his eye, and later he became blind in both eyes. Although he was then only seven or eight years old, Louis had to walk with a cane in order to feel where he was going. The people of the town felt very sorry when they saw this small boy, completely blind, feeling his way along the streets with his cane in order to find his way. A few years later Louis went to a special school for the blind in Paris. There he learned to read, that is, he learned to recognize the twenty six letters of the alphabet by feeling them with his
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