In 1970 more than half of blind American schoolchildren could read Braille. Now, only about 10% can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Only a quarter of blind Americans of working age actually have jobs, and it is surely no coincidence that almost all of them can read Braille.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
With respect to first item, The Economist attributes this to mainstreaming, teaching blind children alongside sighted children, without any pull-out time for instruction in Braille. \u00a0One could imagine that a further reason might be if the category of \u201cblind\u201d includes a fair number with marginal vision, sufficient for reading heavily-magnified texts, but if that\u2019s so, the second statistic is all the more shocking.<\/p>\n
A small item, a distracting item, but, well, what do you make of this?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This per The Economist: In 1970 more than half of blind American schoolchildren could read Braille. Now, only about 10% can. and Only a quarter of blind Americans of working age actually have jobs, and it is surely no coincidence that almost all of them can read Braille. With respect to first item, The Economist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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