Its president , marc maurer , a voracious reader , compares louis braille to abraham lincoln .
联合会主席,马克毛雷尔,是一名狂热的阅读者,他把路易斯布莱叶比作亚伯拉罕林肯。
Although sloate does regret not spending more time learning to spell in her youth - she writes by dictation - she says she thinks that using braille would have only isolated her from her sighted peers .
This tool takes braille text , and by rolling over a straight line of braille text , the machine is able to read the braille , and then translate it into speech .
这个工具在布莱叶盲文上直线滚动,进而能够读取布莱叶盲文,然后将其转换成语音。
Endowed with a reliable method of written communication for the first time in history , blind people had a significant rise in social status , and louis braille was embraced as a kind of liberator and spiritual savior .
Stephanie enyart sued the exam 's administrators in november after they repeatedly insisted she take parts of the test with a human reader or in braille .
At that time there were only a few books for the blind . These were braille books . They had a special alphabet made with dots that blind people could read with their fingers .
Researchers at harvard found , for example , that blindfolding sighted adults for as few as five days could produce a shift in the way their brains functioned : their subjects became markedly better at complex tactile tasks like learning braille .
Because a single textbook can cost more than $ 1000 and there 's a shortage of braille teachers in public schools , visually impaired students often read using mp3 players , audiobooks and computer-screen-reading software .
Blind people who read braille show a remarkable increase in the size of the region of their somatosensory cortex-a region on the side of the brain that processes the sense of touch-devoted to their right index finger .
The managing director of a wall street investment management firm , sloate has been blind since age 6 , and although she reads constantly , poring over the news and the economic reports for several hours every morning , she does not use braille .