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

• 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.