Braille Makes A Comeback

“According to figures from the American Printing House for the Blind, the country’s oldest manufacturer of educational material for blind students, today fewer than one-quarter of the blind children in this country who could potentially learn Braille actually do so. (Not all blind children can learn Braille. Many children born blind are also born with cognitive disabilities that make mastering Braille impossible.) Braille’s decline was the byproduct of a revolution in education for the blind that, for a time, made Braille seem irrelevant.” Now, Braille is in a comeback…