National Braille Week is organised by the charity Royal Blind (www.royalblind.org) and coincides with World Sight Day on 9th October 2014.
World Sight day aims to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment, with a rolling theme of universal eye health. This year they also have a call to action for ‘no more avoidable blindness’.
Useful and up to date information about looking after your eyes and vision and conditions that can affect your eyes can be found at:
Visionmatters: www.visionmatters.org.uk
NHS: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Eyehealth/Pages/Eyehealthhome.aspx
RNIB: http://www.rnib.org.uk/eye-health. They provide information relating to your child’s education at: http://www.rnib.org.uk/information-everyday-living/education-and-learning.
Action for Blind people: https://www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk/about-us/. To see their resources for children and young people please click here.
National Braille Week aims to raise awareness of the importance of Braille and other alternative formats that can open up the written word to people with visual impairments.
Braille is a system of touch reading and writing in which raised dots represent the letters of the alphabet and numbers, as well as music notes and symbols.
RNIB have a library of children’s/young people’s books in large print, braille or audio that you can borrow – please click here or call 01733 375333. They also provide information and advice about ebooks and ebook readers.
