Out of Darkness

The Story of Louis Braille

About this book

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

Subjects

  • biography
  • blind
  • blind, biography
  • blind, juvenile literature
  • blind, printing and writing systems
  • blind teachers
  • braille
  • braille, louis, 1809-1852
  • juvenile literature
  • juvenile nonfiction / biography & autobiography / historical
  • people with disabilities
  • physically handicapped
  • teachers