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<li>[[Helping Children Who Are Blind:Helping the school get ready for your child|Helping the school get ready for your child]]</li>
<li>[[Helping Children Who Are Blind:Preparing to read and write|Preparing to read and write]]</li>
<li>[[Helping Children Who Are Blind:Learning to read and write Braille|Learning to read and write Braille]]</li>
<li>[[Helping Children Who Are Blind:School is important for all children|School is important for all children]]</li>
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If your child cannot see letters or is blind, a specially trained teacher can teach him to read and write using a system called 'Braille'. Braille may look difficult, but that is only because it is new to you. Most children and adults can learn Braille easily.
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<div style="position: absolute; width: 150px; top: 100px; left: 280px;">There may be special schools or classes for children who are blind, and teachers who will teach Braille to children.</div></div>

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<div style="position: relative; width: 380px; height: 140px; float:right; top:-15px;">[[Image:HCWB_Ch14_Page_139-2.png|left|210px|alt=Braille patterns for the letters 'd', 'o', and 'g'.]]</div>
<div style="margin-left:30px;">To read Braille, a child runs his fingertips over patterns of bumpy dots that stand for letters of the alphabet. These 'letters' are put together to make words, like this.</div>
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<tr><td style="line-height:110%">''To write Braille, a child can<br> use different tools. These are <br>the most common writing tools<br> — a slate and stylus.</td>
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A child writes with a slate and stylus by pushing the tip of the stylus into heavy paper on the slate. The stylus pushes dots into the paper. He can then turn the paper over to read the raised dots with his fingers.
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A child will be able to learn Braille more easily if he has [[Helping_Children_Who_Are_Blind:Hand_and_finger_skills|strong, flexible fingers]].


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