Today is the “World Braille Day”! According to the United Nations website, braille is “a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols.” These raised dots help blind and visually impaired individuals read, from board books to signs and everything in-between in their everyday lives. World Braille Day was established in 2019, although the system – invented by Louis Braille- has been around and in use since 1824, translated into almost every known language. For this article, I’ve picked our resource materials written in braille available at WPPL!
Check out our Disability Resources section at WPPL for more books on sign language, AACs, and other disability tools, and read our previous article, Cat’s Picks: International Day of Sign Languages.
