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Louis Braille was a French educator. His blindness led him to develop a system that allows blind people to read and write. This system is called braille.
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- Braille System
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- Legacy
Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, a small town about twenty miles east of Paris, on 4 January 1809. He and his three elder siblings – Monique Catherine (b. 1793), Louis-Simon (b. 1795), and Marie Céline (b. 1797) – lived with their parents, Simon-René and Monique, on three hectares of land and vineyards in the countryside. Simon-René maintained a...
Braille studied in Coupvray until the age of ten. Because of his combination of intelligence and diligence, Braille was permitted to attend one of the first schools for blind children in the world, the Royal Institute for Blind Youth, since renamed to the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. Braille, the last of the family's children to lea...
Braille was determined to invent a system of reading and writing that could bridge the gap in communication between the sighted and the blind. In his own words: "Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we [the blind] are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending si...
Although Braille was admired and respected by his pupils, his writing system was not taught at the Institute during his lifetime. The successors of Valentin Haüy, who had died in 1822, showed no interest in altering the established methods of the school, and indeed, they were actively hostile to its use. Dr. Alexandre François-René Pignier, headmas...
Through the overwhelming insistence of the blind pupils, Braille's system was finally adopted by the Institute in 1854, two years after his death. The system spread throughout the French-speaking world, but was slower to expand in other places. However, by the time of the first all-European conference of teachers of the blind in 1873, the cause of ...
2 de ene. de 2024 · Nacido el 4 de enero de 1809 en localidad francesa de Coupvray, un pequeño pueblo situado a unos 40 kilómetros al este de París, Louis fue el hijo menor de una familia cuyos miembros (tanto sus padres como sus hermanos) eran ya mayores cuando él vino al mundo.
14 de jun. de 2019 · How 15-year-old Louis Braille invented a revolutionary tactile code for the visually impaired.
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Louis Braille was a French educator who developed a system of printing and writing that is extensively used by the blind. The system was named for him. Braille was born on January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, near Paris, France.
Louis Braille ( pronunciación en francés: /lwi bʁɑj/; Coupvray, Sena y Marne, Francia, 4 de enero de 1809 - París, Francia, 6 de enero de 1852) fue un pedagogo francés que diseñó un sistema de lectura y escritura para personas con discapacidad visual.
In 1812, in the small village of Coupvray, France, 3-year-old Louis Braille played in his father’s harness shop next to the family’s house. His father was one of the best harness makers in the area. Mr. Braille also made reins, saddles and collars for the villagers’ horses.
