Braille
Learning Braille with my
teacher - Abdul Shakoor
About Braille
Braille System, method of
printing books for use by the blind, consisting of a system of raised dots
embossed in paper by hand or machine and read by touch. Each letter, number,
and punctuation mark is indicated by the number and arrangement of one
to six dots in a cell, or letter space, two dots wide and three dots high.
Musical notation also can be transcribed into Braille. The characters are
embossed from the back of the paper, working in reverse direction, and
are read from the face of the paper in normal reading direction. The blind
can transcribe Braille on a slate by using a stylus or on a Braillewriter
(which resembles a typewriter) by striking keys.
About Braille
and Speak Classic
This is a Computer and a talking terminal with its own memory equivalent
to 600 Braille pages. All the basic Word processing features of a PC are
available in it. Entries are made in Braille code which are spoken out
in English. When a Braille Embosser is attached, the entered material is
embossed in which ever language code it was entered. This particular model
was released on December 12, 1994 by American Printing House for the Blind
(APH), Louisville, Kentucky, USA. I purchased it on my last trip to the
USA on Sept 12, 1996.
This equipment can produce Braille material for the blind and thereby
provide the much needed books for their education. According to my information,
this equipment is not available in Pakistan yet. It is my suggestion that
this equipment should be available in all blind schools. I am sure that
there will be many donors/sponsors who will finance such a project. A friend
of mine has suggested that advice and training can be provided through
a team of dedicated persons. According to her this project may be difficult
but not impossible
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