How the Blind Read #
January 30th, 2010 | In Worth Reading
This shocked me:
A report released last year by the National Federation of the Blind, an advocacy group with 50,000 members, said that less than 10 percent of the 1.3 million legally blind Americans read Braille. Whereas roughly half of all blind children learned Braille in the 1950s, today that number is as low as 1 in 10, according to the report.
The rest of the piece is a worthy analysis of what that fact means.