S2 Ep693: Braille 200 - Willow Freeman from the American Printing House for the Blind

RNIB Connect

As we all celebrate 200 years since Louis Braille invented his tactile reading and writing system for blind and partially sighted people through the RNIB Braille 200 year long campaign raising the awareness of Braille to visually impaired and sighted people here on RNIB Connect Radio we are chatting with people who are Braille users to find out what Braille means to them and how Braille has maybe helped them throughout their life.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up Willow Freeman, Global Innovations Product Manager at the American Printing House for the Blind (part of the Perkins School for the Blind in America) to find out how she not only started working as a Transcriber but also about how she learnt Braille, the importance of her English Degree as a Braille Transcriber and the importance of Braille for visually impaired people who are able to use Braille.
Willow also talks about some of the myths people might have around learning Braille along with some top tips for people who are starting to learn Braille too.
Ending with Willow sharing that when she is reading words on the page in print in her mind she is seeing the Braille dot formation of the words.
To find out more about Braille do visit the following pages of the RNIB website -
https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/education-and-learning/braille-tactile-codes/
Image shows a square with three stripes. From top to bottom: pink stripe with 'Braille 200' written in white text, black stripe with an image depiction of the same text in white braille dots, and final white stripe with 'Powered by' written in black text and the RNIB and EBU logos beneath that.