Braille is Literacy

Nothing substitutes for the ability to read and write effectively. Literacy is a fundamental right of every person. For blind children, braille is an essential tool in the process of becoming literate and makes it possible for them to compete with their sighted peers in the classroom and beyond.

Braille is Literacy

For blind children, braille is an essential tool in the process of becoming literate and makes it possible for them to compete with their sighted peers at school and beyond.

National Braille Press empowers the blind and visually impaired with programs, materials, and technology supporting braille literacy and learning through touch.

We Believe:

  • Braille is an essential tool that helps people without sight become literate;
  • Like everyone else,  blind people need the opportunities that literacy provides to succeed in school, work and life.
  • Reading is a Right — Not a privilege, blind kids shouldn’t be left out.
  • Early access to braille and pre-braille resources provide the critical foundation for a blind student's success in school.

Braille literacy improves education and employment outcomes:
  • An estimated 30% of blind people are employed, and of that group, 90% are braille readers.
  • Yet only 10% of blind school children receive braille instruction.
  • Of the 84% of blind children who attend public school,  many only receive an hour per week of braille instruction.
  • It costs 3X more to produce a book in braille as it does in print.

Mother and daughter sitting together, reading a braille book.

 

 

Programs Promoting Braille Literacy

 

Hands On! Books for Blind Children is a series of programs for blind children that seek to provide braille books to thousands of blind children and their families throughout every stage of their learning and to provide advocacy and education promoting the benefits of braille.

 

Our Children's Braille Programs:
Text to Braille Services for Students:
The Braille Alphabet 
Family Reading Braille Together

 

Donate

Everyday we work to support blind people in their endeavors to lead productive, responsive, self-sufficient, and full lives by publishing in braille materials that are responsive to their needs throughout their lives.

Your donation supports our free braille resource programs for blind children and their families,  offsets the costs of producing books in braille to make them affordable to braille readers and supports the publication of technology and lifestyle books written by blind authors for blind users.

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Braille Is Literacy