Andrea Patten

Jan 252013
 
"Louis Braille" in braille

“Louis Braille” in braille. Photo credit: Wikipedia

The next time you find yourself thinking that a person may be “too young” to make a significant contribution consider this:
At the age of 15,  Louis Braille developed a system of reading and writing based on the use of raised dots. Braille has been used in many languages and, prior to advances in electronic communication, served as a standard form of reading and writing for the blind.

 

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Who’s that handsome guy?  Think he’ll play with me???  (I love it when he goes around the side to “check” ~ one of my shepherds used to check on his food whenever there was a dog on TV.)

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