News: Humanware's 2010 Braille Literacy Award winner announced
Blog: Humanware's 2010 Braille Literacy Award winner announced
by Ted Mc from BlindMind.net, 20 May 2010
Humanware today announced its 2010 Braille Literacy Award winner. The annual award reflects excellence in braille learning during the early stages of a child's life, and comes with a prize (other than the relief of knowing your child is literate!) of a Mountbatten Braille Writer Learning System.
The award goes to the Jones family of Minnasota, who are raising 2 visually impaired children and teaching them braille since a very young age.
The Jones family writes, "Literacyis the key to any child's future and we are learning that "Braille" literacy isthe key to our second and third children because of their visual impairments.Reading and writing is a basic fundamental form of communication and if youcannot read or write, you cannot support yourself as an independent person.Braille will be the only written communication for our daughter and second son."
Many who have become blind or visually impaired later in life may have trouble grasping the importance and life-changing independance that literacy provides. Being able to spell, read and write may sound almost trivial to some in today's electronic age, where we can get pretty much everything in some type of audio format. But for someone looking to break into the heavily anti-disabled workplace, you almost have to be better than everyone else, not just equal, and certainly not sub-standard. And like almost everything else in life, braille and literacy in general are best learned early...it is incredibly harder to do as an adult if you don't have that grasp on literacy already, so it becomes all the more important to be done at the earlies of ages.
Congratulations to Brian and Heather Jones for their commitment to their children's education. Read more about them, and Humanware's braille initiatives at:
More info aboutHumanWare support for Braille Literacy
Posted by Ted Mc at 20 May 2010, 4:24 PM 
Categories: Visual Impairment, Blind, Braille, Accessibility, Advocacy, News
Tags: visually impaired Advocacy blind braille Humanware accessibility news
Categories: Visual Impairment, Blind, Braille, Accessibility, Advocacy, News
Tags: visually impaired Advocacy blind braille Humanware accessibility news
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