Alphabet Braille

I want to print out a copy of the braille alphabet.

There are a lot of sites on the net about braille, Some of them will show you examples i.e readings bur you need to have a special Braille printer or embosser to print out readable documents since this alphabet is designed for blind people, the letters are " raised" from the text. You can check out the info I found anyway:


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na vclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2 005-38,GGLR:en&q=braille+alphabet

2006-04-01 06:27:30 by dillpickle

Grade 1 Braille (now called Uncontracted Braille). Braille revolutionized life for the vision impaired. Discover how this remarkable system works ...

What is the pattern of laying out the dots in the braille alphabet system?

It all begins with the braille cell. Imagine the #6 domino: the first column (from top to bottom) numbers 1,2,3. And the second column (same way) 4,5,6.

1 4
2 5
3 6

Letters A-C use dots 1-2. D-J start to incorporate dots 4 & 5. K-T will take dots 3 into their letters. U-Z will use dot 6.

2010-01-12 08:24:03 by Synthia

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I'm working on learning braille, and I figured since I'm also learning Spanish, then learning Spanish braille would be helpful also. I just don't want to get the 2 alphabets mixed up if they are different, like ASL and other sign languages are. Thanks.

they are the same. Braille has a standard combination of points for each letter, no matter what language the word is in. I am not sure about accents é, à, ô etc. though. I had a blind schoolmate, and she did French, German English and Latin in Braille. Greek too.. Now I come to think of it: I never checked how she did greek and now I am wondering how would braille work for languages that have a different alphabet? Like chinese, russian, japanese etc.??

2009-03-27 20:14:01 by Brian.E

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How come blind people don't use the braille of the normal alphabet, instead choosing to use braille of dots? Isn't it harder to learn?

Also, how can people who are born deaf-blind learn to use Braille?

Braille is an alphabet. By the sense of touch, the reader can translate dots into words. However, it is extremely hard for blind people to communicate when they are restricted to raised dots on a page. They can read, but how can they respond?

I am unaware there is a Braille other than dots. But then, you would have to have been born blind to understand the necessity to touch with fingertips in order to communicate.

I learned to communicate with a person born deaf by using fingers (you can spell out the alphabet using your fingers, but it's hard work). I have no idea how anyone could begin to communicate with a person born deaf an blind. I suspect Braille would not be of much use to them. However, I am open to new information in order to promote understanding. I take it you are not blind?

2008-09-19 10:17:41 by Sarah

You have to name letters that are reflections and rotations of each other. For extra credit you have to come up with a word that has either reflection or rotational symmetry. Also why are there no letters that are translations of each other?

Last question first.

Remember Brail is for people whose eyes are not working, so their fingers find a shape ... it could be a letter upside down or sideways, because people who put the letters there can be careless people with eyes, so it is important that the letter be unique shape, no matter what its orientation.

2007-09-16 11:54:55 by search4edward