There is a national shortage of educators who know and can teach braille, and it’s leaving children who need their services in a dire predicament.
"When my son was born, he was the first blind person I’d ever met," Emily Coleman told"Good Morning America."
The lack of Braille education dramatically affects a person with impaired vision's ability to find work. Over 70% of working-age adults with significant vision loss are not employed full time, according to Cornell University’s disability statistics. While technology is inching in the right direction by including services like speech-to-text, standard on some devices, there is still a long way to go to make all the features of the modern world accessible to those with vision impairment or loss."Sometimes it’s a misunderstanding on the part of sighted people who think why can’t some people just listen to information? We have audiobooks, we have recorded information.
“I have a student who is in AP chemistry and honors calculus ... and legally blind,” Gullifor said, adding that another one of her former students is living in New York and studying law."To watch someone learn to read with their fingers is one of the most fascinating things you’ll ever watch." Gullifor’s role includes meeting students in their local schools and giving them one-on-one instruction on Braille. Her caseload ranges but she works with approximately 15 students each year and she often helps teach the same students year after year, creating lasting bonds them.
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