How braille has changed my life

Hello,  wellcome to  this article  from  my blog. My name is Natalia, I am   twenty two years old and I study at the PUCPR, in Brazil.  I was born with a visual  disability  that makes me  almost totally blind. I can only make a diference between  very  dark and very  lighted places.    I  am using  the computer for writing tis article but, when I was young, i learn  propperly how to read and write   in Braille, wich is the topic of this post.  

Braille is a  writing code  that  has elped peopple around the world to comunicate and to be free. Also,   it has been  adapted to de new technologies. It is made of different convination of  six  points  that, in certain positions, mean diferent letters  from our latin alfabet. When a   tipewriter is not available,  these are the special  objects that we need to   write in  braille: A slate is a metal or plastic guide that opens with a hinge on one end. A slate can come in different shapes and sizes. A stylus is a small tool about 3 inches long, with a metal point at one end and a wooden knob or plastic handle at the other end. There is also braille for  languages that use diferent tipes of alfabet, such as Chinesse or Arabic. 

Braille is not a new languaje, it is just a  different  way of repressenting letters.

Braille is a dot sistem that can be touched and readed for the blind persons. It was oficially created by Louis Braille,  from France, in 1825. He was blind since he was a child, and he only  learned how the leters work with heavy and inpractical models of the letters. 

Louis Braille was born on january  of 1809, and death in 1852.

He was blind because of an accident since he was three years old, so  he  couldn’t read a book, for example. He discovered and  improved  a sistem that was used for the soldiers in war to read mesajes in the darknes, just touching the letters. Louis Braille allowed blind peopple to read books, write letters, know the name of their medicines and the numbers o fan elevator. He has also allowed to read  and  write music, and i’ts still present in our technological world.