Wendy Sara lost her sight at the age of 28, but the Braille House library gives her the ability to see with her imagination. It also teaches others how to read it.
What's next?Wendy Sara was not much of a bookworm when she was a child, but as her vision grew darker she learnt braille so she could continue to read.
These days she reads how-to books on knitting, autobiographies, and has even been able to play Scrabble with friends with the aid of braille. The not-for-profit library translates, creates and lends braille books to blind and vision-impaired readers across Australia. "For every 100 books a sighted child has access to, a blind child has access to only five, and that's the statistic that drives this place," Mr Barker said."What we do here goes a long way to creating that independence for people who are blind or who have low vision, and that's what Braille House is about."They print "double-vision" picture books so that blind children can read along with their sighted parents, and vice versa.
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