[IL-Talk] FW: NBP Presents: Faces of Braille

Tue Oct 26 19:08:40 UTC 2021

FYI. Go Braille! 

From: National Braille Press <enews at nbp.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:38 AM
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Subject: NBP Presents: Faces of Braille

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Our mission at National Braille Press is to put braille into the hands of blind children and adults to help them live their best lives. The Faces of Braille is a portrait project that tells the story of 10 of these braille readers, ranging from 4 years old to 94 years old, who use braille at home, work, and everywhere in between. 

Check out this week's Face of Braille below.

Meet Laura Wolk

Laura Wolk learned to read braille when she was three years old and has loved it ever since. Though she studied psychology for her undergrad, a conference at Notre Dame changed her life and led her to study law. Wolk is passionate about disability rights, and the more specific fields of discrimination including end-of-life care, the beginning of life, and how parents are informed if their child is disabled. She experienced the medical community encouraging terminating a pregnancy upon finding that the child is disabled, and she is driven to end that stigma. Wolk became the first female braille reader to clerk in the Supreme Court of the United States as a Law Clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas. Wolk’s hire has led to significant accessibility changes in the Supreme Court, allowing her to work there, which started a year before Wolk was scheduled to start.

“The thing I love most about braille is it allows me to have silence. We live in such a noisy world and it allows me to sit in the sun and read a book and you need to get away from the constant sounds of life, and there’s no way to capture that in other forms of technology."

With the right tools, anything is possible.  Give the gift of braille literacy to put blind children on the path to literacy and give them the tools they need to live their most successful lives.

Every week, we’ll be adding a new Face of Braille to our Gallery Page, so check back next Friday!

Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller

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