Introducing braille

Our range of fun, exciting introductory courses have been designed to help young children learn to read through braille.

Choose the right course for you

Reading together (series) may be used independently.

Hands on is a new course, designed to replace Braille for infants from January 2011.

Braille is easy steps is designed to help children of about 10 to 14 transfer from print literacy to braille.

Last updated: 2 January 2013

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What is braille?

Braille is a code based on six dots, arranged in two columns of three dots. There are different types of braille codes. These use variations of the six dots to represent all the letters of the alphabet, numbers, punctuation marks and commonly-occurring groups of letters.