How Is The Braille Alphabet Be Used To Read And Write?

Imagine that someone is walking in front of you with a cane. The steady tap, tap, tap, rings out across the room. They have the cane because they are blind and don’t know their surroundings very well. So how do they learn how to read and write? To talk to other people? More importantly, if a way for them to read and write was to be invented, who’s responsible for it? Multiple people have contributed to writing the Braille alphabet, but the main inventor was Louis Braille, who it was named after.
The Braille alphabet is a series of raised dots that a blind person can use to read and write. Before it was invented, there wasn’t a very efficient way to read or write. Braille also helped other fields of work and how they worked, but helping the …show more content…
These included using a stylus, sliding rule, paper, and 2 different frames or a braille typewriter. Each way writes effectively, but the typewriter takes less work to use.
Charles Barbier, the man that I glossed over before, had a huge impact on how braille functions today. Being a french general, Barbier knew the challenges that communicating at night posed. He wanted a better method for these soldiers to communicate without alerting other camps where they were by having to turn on a light. The method that he came up with was called night writing. It consisted of 12 dots that were made using the same methods as braille used. They would take some cardboard or whatever materials they could and a sharp object to poke holes in it.
Back to Louis Braille. One day when Braille was still in school as a student, Barbier came to visit. He talked to them about night writing and another method that he was making that was spoken out loud and could be put on a record disk. It was called sonography, but it didn’t go far. Braille listened intently to everything that Barbier said and eventually came to a conclusion about what he could fix to improve …show more content…
Most didn’t even know why he was falling asleep in class, or why he didn’t pay much attention in his classes. Braille persevered through this and once he showed everyone what he had done, they were amazed. It was a method that was very efficient to use for reading and writing, something that they had never had before. Because of this, they could then communicate with each other in many different ways. The children of the Royal Institute for Blind Youth absolutely loved what Braille had invented and implemented it in their daily