Louis Braille was born in France. 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852
Louis was left blind after an accident in his father’s harness shop. During this time in history, blind people had very few options available to them. Louis was able to excel in his studies and eventually received a schoparship to France’s Royal Insitute for Blind Youth.
Louis spent his time here working on a system of tactile dots to help blind people read and write quickly. This system was able to be used in not only writing byt also for music.
In 1824, Louis showed his work to his peers when he was fifteen years old. This is what we know use. The code has gone through many changes, but Louis Braille can be thanked for his ingenuity in creating this reading and writing system.
Louis Braille became a professor as an adult. His students admired him. But his writing system was not taught during his lifetime.
Today Braille is now available in multiple languages. It can be used for both mathematics and music. There is now a Unified English Braille Code that is most commonly used.
In Braille, not everything is spelled out like it is in print. This is why Braille is a code and not a langauge. Braille has contractions. This means certain signs make letter combinations.
The six dots can be used in so many ways. Below is the Braille alphabet.
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