Louis Braille invented the Braille Language For The Blind at 15. Born in France in 1809, he was blinded at the age of 3. While a student at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in 1824, he met Charles Barbier, an officer who had developed “sonography,” a system of written communication based on raised dots. Though the system was developed with the French Army in mind, Braille believed a similar method could be used by people who were blind and created what is now known the written language named for him. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Braille’s language of raised dots enables the blind to read
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
