Louis Braille

Louis Braille, who was blind, wanted to be able to read. When he was three years old he was blinded by an accident. He went to a special school in Paris where he was happy. When Louis was 15 years old he created the alphabet in a code of dots; an idea he got from the French army. Each letter was a pattern of 1 to 6 raised dots. He learned to read and write quickly by using his new alphabet. His code was banned from his school because the teachers didn’t like the idea. Five years later he published his system in 1819. Louis Braille helped blind people everywhere to be able to read and write.