World Braille Day

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Published on January 4, 2014 9:02:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MZNacPCSb8

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World Braille Day is celebrated every year on 4th January around the world to commemorate the birthday of Louis Braille. Louis Braille is credited with inventing the Braille language which helps blind people to read as well as write.
Louis Braille was born in France. At the age of 3, he accidentally became blind. However, he had a great yearning to be able to read and write properly, despite his disability. An attentive kid at school, at the age of 15, he developed a set of symbols by making raised dots on a piece of paper. The dots could be easily felt by hand, thus enabling even the blind to feel them and hence, read and write.
The language developed y Louis Braille is today known as the Braille language.