Directory of Braille, Louis Resources

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This category lists pages and sites about the life of Louis Braille (1809-1852). Blind himself and a teacher of the blind, Braille modified the Barbier "point writing" system which had previously been used for coded army messages and created an alphabet of embossed characters that allowed the blind to "read" with their fingertips.

Resources in This Category

• A New Method: The Story of Louis Braille

  http://louisbrailleschool.org/resources/louis-braille/
  Online version of the biography that was originally published in book form by the Louis Braille Center (now Louis Braille School) in Edmonds, Washington.

• First School Years: Louis Braille

  http://www.firstschoolyears.com/history/people/Braille/braille.htm
  The story of Louis Braille and the Braille alphabet.

• Louis Braille and the Braille System

  http://www.duxburysystems.com/braille.asp
  Tells the story of Braille's life and describes the system of writing he invented.

• Louis Braille Biography

  http://www.afb.org/braillebug/louis_braille_bio.asp
  Biography about the man who developed the language for the blind.

• The Story of Louis Braille

  http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/braille.html
  About the French man who invented a way for the blind to read.

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