Readers learn what blindness is, how it can be caused, and what daily life is like for someone who cannot see, includes a video, which launches via a 4D app.
An introduction to braille that uses braille dot illustrations, not actual raised braille dots, and activities such as crossword puzzles and bingo to teach braille to sighted people.
Louis Braille was only fifteen when he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Readers will learn how Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and nearly two hundred years later, no one has ever improved on his simple, brilliant idea.
"Some people are blind. What does that mean? Using simple,engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn what blindness is, how it can be caused, and what daily life is like for someone who can't see."--.
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted most of all was to be able to read. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch.
Tells the life story of Louis Braille, the nineteenth-century man who lost his sight at the age of three and developed an alphabet for blind people when he was fifteen.
