Braille Lesson 2

I'm off to a late start this week. Sorry about that!

This week you will learn some more about punctuation. Below will give you all the punctuation you will need! Some signs you see below have more than one braille cells. For more info on these punctuations go to http://www.brl.org/intro/session03/punctuation.html

Next week you will start to learn the "A" abbreviations.

apostrophe	'
asterisk	*
bar (oblique stroke)	/
opening bracket/brace	[
closing bracket/brace	]
colon	:
comma	,
dash	_
double dash	__
decimal point	.
ditto	"
dollar sign	$
ellipsis	...
exclamation point	!
fraction line	/ or __
hyphen	-
number sign	#
opening parenthesis	(
closing parenthesis	)
pence (sterling coinage	d
percent	%
period	.
pound (sterling coinage)	£
question mark	?
double opening quotation mark	"
double closing quotation mark	"
single opening quotation mark	'
single closing quotation mark	'
section sign	§
semicolon	;
shilling (sterling coinage)	s

Braille Lesson #1

	When you first look at something written in braille, all you see (or feel) is a jumble of dots! However, like any other code, braille is based on a logical system. Once you understand it, you'll be able to read and write braille easily. That's because braille is not a language, it's just another way to read and write English (or any other language, such as Japanese).

Every Sunday I will be posting a new lesson. First step to learning is to learn the alphabet, numbers and some punctuation. To make a number a number you need to put a number symbol in front of it (shown below.) You can use puff paint to write braille for now or you can buy a slate. To learn more information about braille visit the Braille Bug.

Braille Alphabet:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ! ' , - . ? Capital Numbers: # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9