The Invention Of The Braille Alphabet

Special writing aids help visually impaired people write in straight lines, while Braille and large-print and audio-cassette books help them read and write.

If a person can’t see they find a way to function through the day with a Seeing Eye dog or reading with Braille knowledge, and if a person is unable to hear they are able to function at a very high level through the use of sign language and reading lips.

Perhaps one of the most notable and widely known members in Deaf society is Laurent Clerc, who was a teacher for the deaf. Born on December 26, 1785 in La Balme-les-Grottes, in southeastern France to hearing parents, it is unknown for sure whether Clerc was born deaf or was deafened later on in life. It is believed that Clerc became deaf at the age of one when he had fallen from his high chair into a fire, badly burning his cheek. He developed a fever from the burn, and was later found out to have lost his sense of smell and hearing. As far as it is known, Clerc was non-speaking and relied on pen and paper to those who could not communicate using sign language.

Deaf-blind can also use a screen Braille communicator, a small portable device that enables them to communicate with sighted people. Alternate communication is print on palm, the person communicating with the deaf-blind person prints large block letters on the other persons hand. Each letter is written in the same location on the persons hand. This is a way for the deaf-blind to communicate with the public.

Braille – This is helpful for blind people to be able to read and understand what they may need to read or even to communicate to people if they are also blind. There are lots of items that come in braille now.

Braille is also a form of written language for blind people or raised marks helping visually impaired people and those with hearing difficulty communicate by reading or writing. Braille benefit in a nursing home by making communication easy and meeting requirement. For example eye range of signs and direction signs. However there may be Individuals that have communication disabilities this means they are not able to communicate effectively with their health care specialists and this could have an effect on their health. Good communication is the base to effective relationship for instants between a service user and their health carer, both through verbal or non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication is type of interpersonal interaction

With this system blind people can read by running their fingers across the dots, and can write by impressing the raised dots into paper using a frame called Braille slate, or a Braille writer.

Louis Braille become blind after accidentally stabbing himself in the eye with a tool. Both his eyes became infected and he couldn’t see at all as a young child in 1814. As a twelve year old he invented braille, a way for the blind to read using raised dots. Later he brought this way of reading to a school for the blind in Paris. The director of the school Dr. Pignier (a supporter of braille who also helped develop braille) was forced to retire. His assistant Pierre-Armand Dufau became the director. Three years later Louis Braille was forced to return to his home town of Coupvray when he came down will tuberculosis. When he returned he found that Dufau had banned all students from reading braille books, and Dufau had burned seventy-three books at the school. Dufau believed that braille gave visually impaired people too much freedom and if it continued there would be no use of seeing teachers at the institute. If not for a few teachers who kept braille books secretly and kept teaching braille to students braille could have disappeared

With new technology comes new ways to let disabilied people use more items. An example is, voice recognition screen readers can help peole who are blind. For instance, eye-tracking programs can make using computers simple for people who can´t move their hands.

The first vision aid, called a reading stone, is invented. It is a glass sphere placed on top of text, which it magnifies to aid readability.

“It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was has I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a knew day to come” Most would not be able to live there life without seeing. Well, Helen could not see, and could not hear. Yet, she still managed to be an author, a political activist, and was the very first deaf blind person achieve a bachelor degree of arts. Many would struggle with doing one of those things. Not to mention all 3. She also did without being able to see or hear. Further proving her courageous, and will to succeed. As well as changing the country in showing even with major setbacks, you will accomplish anything you want. Helen Keller was great proof of courage, and helping others with the same setbacks you have. Maybe deafness and blindness were blessings. They gave her to ability to show anyone, (even with setbacks) you can do anything if you really

could be read by millions of people who could not overcome the language barriers previously. Not only would translations of spoken language be possible but brail libraries could be expanded with a few key clicks.

According to an online journal by Carla A. Halpern, in 1817, a Connecticut clergyman named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, opened the first permanent school for the deaf in Hartford (Halpern, C., 1996). This deaf school was for American children which only had seven students and a head teacher by the name of Laurent Clerc. Clec was from the Paris Institution for the Deaf and had been deaf since infancy. He bought to the United States a nonverbal form of communication known as French sign language (Halpern, C., 1996).

Laurent Clerc was a deaf man from France born on December 26th 1785. He was not born Deaf however; he became Deaf around the age of 1 after falling into a fireplace. This incident left Laurent with a scar on his face. The scar eventually became a part of his name sign which was stroking the letter U down the right cheek. When he was a child he didn’t attend school until the age of 12 when he was enrolled into the Institut National des Jeune Sourds-Muets. The school was run by Abbe Roch Amroise Sicard and his first teacher was Jean Massieu. At the school they taught students to communicate through French Sign Lanugage. Laurent was a very good student but chose not to communicate through speaking. Laurent decided that signing is the best form of communication for Deaf people so he began to teach and demonstrate his methods to other people.

Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809 in Coupvray, France. In Louis’ earlier ages he looked up to his dad, which was a harness maker. One day, when Louis was five, he wanted to help his dad, so, he grabbed an awl on the table and accidentally stabbed his eye. Louis thought he was helpless, but then one day, he met this priest. The priest taught him many things, leading Louis to love to learn. He then put Louis in a school for blind where he found out what night writing was. Louis thought this was a clever way to read and write but was too complicated, so, the next few years he made night writing better, Braille. After, he became a teacher, killing him because of the damp air in the school.