CBS News Story Reports on Declining Braille Literacy
Michelle Miller of CBS News recently interviewed educators at Perkins School for the Blind, the oldest school for the visually impaired in the nation and a place where students receive one on one braille instruction.
Watch this video on the CBS News website.
Braille Literacy Changes Lives
Thousands of children and adults who are blind or visually impaired depend on braille every day as their means to independent literacy. Among people who are legally blind, those who learn braille as their original reading medium and use it extensively are employed at a significantly higher rate than non-braille users.
Perkins braille teacher, Rosalind "Roz" Rowley, who is interviewed in the CBS story, was named Teacher of the Year at the 2010 National Braille Challenge event in Los Angeles. Roz graduated from Perkins in 1964 and has taught at the school for nearly 40 years.
“To know braille,” says Roz, “is to be able to go out in the world and be employable and independent. The importance of braille in a blind child’s life cannot be underestimated.”
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