Over time, braille gradually came to be accepted throughout the world as the fundamental form of written communication for blind individuals. Today it remains basically as he invented it. However, there have been some small modifications to the braille system, particularly the addition of contractions representing groups of letters or whole words that appear frequently in a language.
The use of contractions permits faster braille reading. It also helps reduce the size of braille books, making them much less cumbersome. Today, we transcribe braille code in many different languages worldwide. Louis would be very proud to know his creation has given literacy to countless numbers of people over the decades. Consequently, people who are blind can enjoy all the printed-word has to offer just like everyone else.
The effect is tremendously empowering and helps them achieve success in school and their careers. Several groups have been established over the last century to modify and standardize the braille code. Join Our Newsletter Signup today and we'll send you the latest from the visual impairment community, right to your inbox!
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His system is the globally accepted code for those with visual impairments. Olivia Rodrigo —. From then on, Louis spent every waking moment outside of class poking holes in paper, ironically, with an awl like the one that accidentally blinded him. He had now completed the braille system, a tactile reading and writing system of 64 symbols total. Louis and his classmates would no longer have to learn through the slow process of tracing huge raised print letters and numbers.
Louis continued to work on his education and became an accomplished musician, writer, researcher, inventor, and teacher at the same school he studied at, the National Institute for Blind Youth. Louis Braille was later forced to retire from teaching due to tuberculosis and passed away on January 6, at the age of The Story of Louis Braille: Inventor of the Braille Code Louis Braille was a French Educator who invented a tactile system of reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired in
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