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Peer reviewedElissalde, E. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
Brief excerpts from correspondence from blind persons and their families in Uruguay indicate increased self-esteem resulting from access to braille materials such as a braille newspaper. Braille literacy is seen to enhance the dialog between student and teacher, parent and child, or child and book. Knowledge of community events offered by the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Blindness, Braille, Foreign Countries
