Technology seeks to preserve fading skill: Braille literacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/technology-seeks-to-preserve-fading-skill-braille-literacy/2017/11/01/f4d1a072-bec4-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html
For nearly a century, the National Braille Press has churned
out millions of pages of Braille books and magazines a year,
providing a window on the world for generations of blind
people. But as it turns 90 this year, the Boston-based
printing press and other advocates of the tactile writing
system are wrestling with how to address record low Braille
literacy. Roughly 13 percent of U.S. blind students were
considered Braille readers in a 2016 survey by the American
Printing House for the Blind, another major Braille publisher,
located in Louisville, Kentucky. That number has steadily
dropped from around 30 percent in 1974, the first year the
organization started asking the question.
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