LOUIS BRAILLE

LOUIS BRAILLE

Louis Braille was a French educator and he was the inventor of the system of reading and writing for blind people. He was born in France in 1809 and he died in 1852. He became blind after an accident he had in his early childhood when he was imitating his father and he injured himself. He invented a writing and reading touch code called Braille, and his surname. The braille method are points, adapted to the alphabet, the numbers, the music... Thanks to his method, many blind people can know the alphabet, read and write efficiatly. The Braille System has been adapted  for use in languages worldwide.