How Did Louis Biraille Be Successful

Louis Braille’s accident at a young age led many to believe that he would not be successful. Louis was born on January 4, 1809, in a French town of Coupvray. Louis was the fourth child to Monique and Simon Rene Braille (Correa & Ward, 1999, para.3). At three years of age, Louis became bind. An awl fell and punctured Louis’ eye as he was playing in his father's saddle shop. An infection set in and took his second eye as well, which caused him to be permanently blind (Correa & Ward, 1999, para.3). When Louis turned ten years of age, he was sent to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth by a nobleman named Marquis d'Orvilliers. Louis then became the youngest student at the school (Correa & Ward, 1999, para. 4-5). From this point on, Louis began
At fifteen years old, Louis managed to simplify Barbier’s System that had been invented for the blind. Louis used six raised dots, which later became known as Braille (Correa & Ward, 1999, para. 9). Louis’ success did not end there. When Louis was seventeen years old, Doctor Pignier named him the first blind apprentice teacher at the school. Many teachers disagreed with the decision, but Pignier argued that Louis was the perfect fit for the position (Correa & Ward, 1999, para. 15). Braille became widely used within the school. However, in 1843, Armand Dufau did not approve of the idea of braille within the school. Dufau confiscated Braille instruments and books to burn them (Correa & Ward, 1999, para. 15). Students defied the actions that Dufau claimed against Braille. One month after disgracing Braille, Dufau allowed Braille to be used again because he did not want to lose his job. Students at the school approached the government shortly afterwards and asked that the government nominate Louis Braille for the French Legion of Honor (Correa & Ward, 1999, para. 18). Although Louis met a setback in school, he made positive advancements, which led him to a positive and successful
New electronics, software, organizations, and uses in everyday life of braille have been invented to assist the blind today. In the United States of America, 6.6 million people are blind over the age of sixteen (Sayei, 2015, p. 60). That number may appear small to most, but that number demonstrates how important these new advancements in technology help to make their lives easier, all thanks to Louis Braille. Embossers are used today to produce braille using heavy and long sheets of paper to change shape (Rush, 2015, p.2). Another electronic used today is the braille computer. Braille computers are meant for students in the classroom to work along with their classmates. The braille display and screen reader are allow a useful way for students to fit in with everything their peers may be doing (Robinson, 2012, p. 15). The BrailleNote is another example of an electronic device used by the blind. The BrailleNote is a device that blind students are able to read from that allows students to work together easily. A BrailleNote can easily be connected to their teacher’s computer, that way a student is able to take notes on their own computer (Robinson, 2012, p. 16). The only disadvantage of a BrailleNote is that the classroom teacher is generally too afraid to give the student feedback because the technology is unknown to them (Robinson, 2012, p. 15). Another electronic device for the blind is