Louis Braille invented the braille system at 12 years old, using six raised dots to communicate letters, numbers, and symbols. Blinded at three, he learned to write at night and developed the six-point system based on Charles Barbier’s technique. Braille is also used for musical notation.
Braille was invented by Louis Braille in 1821 when he was just 12 years old and is now the standard system used worldwide. Braille is a reading method for the blind that uses six raised dots to communicate letters, numbers and symbols. When he was three years old, Louis Braille was blinded by an accident in his father’s shop. While in a special school for the blind, Louis learned to write at night, the basic technique of using raised dots for tactile writing and reading, developed by Charles Barbier. Based on this technique, Louis developed the six-point system for reading related to normal spelling.
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Louis Braille was passionate about music and extended his tactile reading system to musical notation.
Of the 285 million visually impaired people in the world, 39 million are blind.
Instead of pencil and paper, people use chalkboards and styluses to communicate in braille.
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