BRAILLE ALPHABET

Braille is writing system which enables blind and partially sighted people to read and write through touch. It was invented by Louis Braille (1809-1852), a French teacher of the blind. It consists of patterns of raised dots arranged in cells of up to six dots in a 3 x 2 configuration. Each cell represents a letter, numeral or punctuation mark. Some frequently used words and letter combinations also have their own single cell patterns.

There are a number of different versions of Braille:

• Grade 1, which consists of the 26 standard letters of the alphabet and punctuation. It is only used by people who are first starting to read Braille.
• Grade 2, which consists of the 26 standard letters of the alphabet, punctuation and contractions. The contractions are employed to save space because a Braille page cannot fit as much text as a standard printed page.
• Grade 3, which is used only in personal letters, diaries, and notes. It is a kind of shorthand, with entire words shortened to a few letter

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Introduction

This blog has been created to show how the communication is between deaf and blind people and the people who help them in their lives.Deaf and blind people have many needs and we have to decide the way to help a little in their lives.

Some people in the Javeriana University (Bogotá, Colombia) have been creating some devices to help in the communication between them.

We want to show in this blog from the most simple way of communication with handycap people to the most complex inventions that are been developed in the Javeriana University

Definition

The deafblindness is a disability resulting from the combination of two sensory impairments (visual and auditory), which generates those affected by communication problems and special needs arising from the difficulty in perceive, know, and therefore interest and deal with their surroundings.

In the case of deafblind people of birth, or the people that had have deafblindness at an early age, the situation is more difficult because there may be additional problems and affect their personality or behavior.

The deafblindness is a disability who require specialized services, staff trained specifically for their care and special methods of communication.

The deafblind people can be divided into four main groups:
1) People with congenital deafblindness.
2) People deafblind with congenital hearing impairment and loss of vision in the course of life.
3) Deafblind people with a visual impairment and congenital hearing loss learned during life.
4) People born without hearing and visually impaired or who suffer hearing loss and vision in the course of life.