World Braille Awareness Day

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:58:55 -0500
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Louis Braille was born today more than one hundred years ago in 1809, and January 4th has been designated as World Braille Day by the United Nations (UN)., and the Braille System is included within their book Writing Peace. January is also Braille Awareness Month.

Test your knowledge on 10 Braille Facts

Check out the Maryland Regional Braille Challenge - which supports Braille literacy and is hosted by the Maryland School for the Blind - their students have visited UMBC in the before-COVID-times, and we anticipate more collaboration.

NFB has a free Slate and Stylus program.

Once we return to campus, take a moment to notice braille throughout UMBC's facilities. Student Disability Services works with graduate and undergraduate students with visual and other disabilities. Accessibility & Disability Services provides supports for faculty, staff and student employees with visual or other disabilities.

"Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge" Louis Braille

"Braille is knowledge. Knowledge is Power." Louis Braille

"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory." Ray Charles

This post is accompanied by a photo of a bronze bas relief of a head in profile with long hair in a bun above braille text - from a panel within the FDR memorial in Washington DC