Photo by Mary Vee Due to modern technology, blind students are using Braille less. Audible advances enable these individuals to hear stories and informative text easily. Educators are finding that these students have become deficient in spelling, composition, and are limited to only that which is produced audibly. Here is some amazing facts about Braille. The inventor of Braille, a fifteen-year-old boy names Louis Braille, took his idea from a night code communication used by the French military. The code enabled leaders in combat to read messages at night without a light. At age three, Braille suffered an accident when playing with an awl in his father's workspace. The incident blinded him in one eye that became infected and spread to his other eye, leaving him totally blind. Louis Braille's was smart. He earned scholarships to attend the Royal Institute for the blind. In those days blind students read by moving their fingertips across raised let...
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