They are also taught how to read and write in Braille by specialist and volunteer educators with disabilites.
UNESCO: Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP)
He says a number of other large institutions will also need to produce information in Braille and could use his service as paying customers.
As a child in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind in 1949, John Boyer found that contemporary scientific material in braille was almost non-existent.
At the start of his career, as an orphaned teenager travelling round Florida, he imitated the rural musicians with whom he played, though already he had a formidable ability to orchestrate music in Braille.
In the future, so many of the public forms and communications we receive could easily be put in Braille by the use of computer software and the transcription equipment now readily available to public authorities.
It was a blind man, Bob Gildea, who got me "hooked" on braille in 1969, enlisting me as a computer programmer on a joint MIT-Mitre Corporation project that allowed teachers within the Atlanta schools to have materials quickly translated into braille for blind students integrated into regular classes.
WHITEHOUSE: Providing Literacy for Informed Citizenry through Braille | The White House
Just looking at what's happened in the last three or four years with access to smart phones, it is revolutionary for blind people, it's as big a revolution as Braille in terms of getting information and it should get easier so that it's not just the blind whizz kids out there who are using them.
But as the years have passed and I have become involved with braille-related volunteer work on various committees of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) and the International Council on English Braille (ICEB), I have come to realize an even greater satisfaction, based upon a deeper understanding of the importance of braille in the lives of blind men and women.
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My staff use exactly such software, along with Braille embossers, in order to be able to produce material for me on a regular basis.
Despite this, braille use has declined, in part due to a shift from specialized schools for people who are blind to mainstream schools where there are too few qualified teachers.
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Accordingly, blind learners are provided with various learning devices and aids including Braillette boards and Perkins Braillers for use in class, talking calculators, pins for learning the Braille alphabet, egg boxes and ping pong balls for initial Braille lessons.
UNESCO: Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP)
In the hands of the sighted, the low-cost Braille industry has stagnated.
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John Godber, Head of Products and Publications for the UK's Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), says, "This is the biggest step forward for learning braille since the invention of the Perkins Brailler" in 1951.
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Blunkett urges people to learn Braille saying that even the best computer Braille displays and earpieces won't help you do a presentation in the same way as having your information on paper in front of you.
His senior year in High School, Greeley invented a device that translated the light patterns on a computer screen into Braille, so the visually impaired could use a computer.
The inventor tested his label maker at a workshop last year in Katpadi, India, where blind trainees successfully taught other visually impaired users how to create their very own Braille-It.
ENGADGET: Braille-It Labeler brings low-cost printing, 'sightless construction' to the blind
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