Certified Blind Person Launches Braille Tutoring Website
Published: Jun 20, 2007Blindness Related Learning, a New York-based Braille tutoring company, recently announced the development of a free online resource for businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals interested in learning Braille. The Braille school provides online tutorials in text-and image-based formats.
Blindness Related Learning was founded in 1998 by S. Patrick MaGuire, a former student of the Royal National Institute for the Blind, United Kingdom, and a recent student of the Jewish Guild for the Blind, Manhattan, New York. Both wanted to create a resource where blindness related services can be found. The Braille school is the latest addition to this resource and in an effort to assist as many potential members as possible in the use and implementation of Braille, the tutorials currently offered are grade one Braille, grade two Braille, slate and stylus, and peg slate.
“Communication at your fingertips” is Blindness Related Learning’s new Web-based set of manuals, which provide step-by-step strategies, techniques and tools to enable people from all over the world to learn Braille at their own pace. Additionally, experienced Braille users are always available to assist those who are new to Braille.
“We wanted to create a place on the Internet where anyone interested in learning more about Braille could go, to quickly find tutorials that would best suit his/her learning needs — as people have their own learning styles,” said MaGuire. “However, because it’s strictly a blindness related Web site, many choose to stay for a while because there are other resources on the Web site that outline other companies that offer blindness related services, such as Braille book publishers, guide dog schools, learning centers, and more.”
Source: Clickpress.com
