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The Dots of Braille Music Transcription

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Daniel Gillen is a Library of Congress Certified Proofreader in Unified English Braille. He works as a Braille Music Specialist at The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School, FMDG, in New York City.  Daniel began learning braille music from FMDG when he was five. There, he participated in their choir and learned to play the […]

Braille: The Doorway to Literacy

Fingers reading a braille page.

As we celebrate Louis Braille’s birthday and World Braille Day on January 4 – and Braille Literacy Month throughout January – it’s an ideal time to consider how important it is for all students who are blind or visually impaired to learn braille.  Of course, there are plenty of ways to take in a language without sight, […]

Literacy and Braille

A Perkin's Braille Writer on a bookshelf in a library.

Braille is a tactile system representing the written word, serving as an alternative to print for those with blindness or low vision. It’s not a language, but a code. This system represents the alphabet and words in languages like English. For braille users, it offers independent literacy. They can read and write unassisted. The braille […]

Braille Roundup: Reading by the Dots

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January is braille awareness month.  Louis Braille, the creator of the braille code, was born on January 4. There are many misunderstandings about braille. A few years ago, in Four Misconceptions to Learning and Reading Braille, I said, “It’s been my experience, with the occasional exception, most individuals with an acquired vision loss who did not grow up using braille express little […]