Welcome to the Braille200 story page
Here you will find a wealth of Braille experience contributed by blind and sighted Canadians. Please select from the following categories:
Learning Braille as a child
Learning Braille as an adult
Teaching Braille
Braille Beyond English
Slate and stylus
Braille and employment
Reading Braille to children
Braille in daily living
Sighted people using Braille
Using Braille in school
Tell Us Your Story
Canadians with interesting true stories about Braille should submit stories to this website. Please email your story to braille200stories@shaw.ca and be sure to give your full name and the town and province in which you live.
Braille readers around the world will be celebrating Louis Braille’s 200th birthday. January 4 2009 will be the bicentenary of his birth in Coupvray, France. This gives us Canadians a golden opportunity to draw attention to the importance of Braille and the impact it has on the lives of blind readers. Chaired by Dr. Euclid Herie, the Braille200 Celebration Committee is looking for a variety of true stories about Braille literacy. The stories will introduce the country to Braille-reading Canadians and provide interesting material for media events.
So tell us your stories about Braille. Did you teach it to somebody who loved it, or learn it from an inspiring teacher? Did Braille help you take an elevator to the right floor, or start a romance in your life? Did you find Braille where you never expected to find it, or succeed in having Braille posted in an important place? Are you working on a Braille project now? If so, why is it important to you? How does Braille help you work, contribute to your leisure, help you organize your life? If an archaeologist unearthed your house 200 years from now, what evidence of Braille would be found there? Maybe you have many stories. Don’t stop at one.
Wendy Edey is the story coordinator. Email your story in print or on a digital recording to braille200stories@shaw.ca
