What percent of blind people use the braille alphabet?
Quoted from Chicago tribune: Braille report: Few blind people use Braille alphabet, and fewer visually impaired children are learning it than in the 1950s Report by the National Federation of the Blind details the state of Braille use today By Bonnie Miller Rubin | Tribune reporter April 13, 2009 “Fewer than 10 percent of the 1.3 million legally blind Americans read Braille, the system of raised dots that has represented the alphabet to the visually impaired for almost two centuries. Moreover, just 10 percent of visually impaired children are learning the system compared with more than 50 percent during its heyday in the 1950s, according to a recent report by the National Federation of the Blind.” Sources: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-braille-13-apr13,0,2008580.
Quoted from Chicago tribune: Braille report: Few blind people use Braille alphabet, and fewer visually impaired children are learning it than in the 1950s Report by the National Federation of the Blind details the state of Braille use today By Bonnie Miller Rubin | Tribune reporter April 13, 2009 “Fewer than 10 percent of the 1.3 million legally blind Americans read Braille, the system of raised dots that has represented the alphabet to the visually impaired for almost two centuries.
Braille report: Few blind people use Braille alphabet, and fewer visually impaired children are learning it than in the 1950s according to a report by the National Federation of the Blind. The report ticks off a multitude of reasons that Braille is in decline, from a shortage of qualified teachers to mainstreaming in money-strapped schools to parents who discourage kids from learning it in favor of voice-recognition software, audio-texts and other technology. One point is clear: Without Braille literacy, the chances of pursuing higher education and better-paying jobs are greatly reduced, advocates say. Even before the recession, the unemployment rate among blind adults hovered around 70 percent.
