Braille Monitor               January 2023

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Working Together on Literacy

 
Given the importance of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled in the lives of blind people and the role of the National Federation of the Blind in supporting the library, Jason Broughton visited the headquarters of the National Federation of the Blind. In addition to seeing our facilities and discussing a bit of the history of the Federation, he and President Riccobono talked about the importance of literacy and the role of Braille, both hardcopy and softcopy. One of the newest projects of the Library is the distribution of Braille delivered to patrons using the newly-developed and deployed machines created for the Library.

Several tall and wide panels of holes, three down and two across, fill this wall in the NFB Jernigan Institute. Each panel has tennis balls that can be inserted in the holes to create words, sentences, and brief messages. President Riccobono moves some dots to “write” Braille on the wall for Jason Broughton, the director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.]
Jason Broughton, the highly energetic director of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, visited the Jernigan Institute to explore our many programs promoting literacy for blind and low vision Americans.
Jason Broughton takes a turn at writing a Braille message by moving the tennis balls as Mark Riccobono advises.

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