• Standard Perkins Brailler
  

  • The Standard Perkins Brailler will meet the needs of most people.
  • It is sturdy and portable and can emboss 25 lines with 42 cells on an 11" x 11 1/2" sheet of paper.
  • Includes dust cover and wooden eraser.
    

• Braille Overview

  • Braille - is based on six dots, like the design on a domino: it consists of 63 symbols made up of all the possible variations of these dots.

  • Grade 1 or Uncontracted Braille

    • 26 of these represent the letters of the alphabet and 10 punctuation marks.
    • They can be used simply to produce a letter-by-letter copy of print.
    • This is known as
    • It is seldom used, as it takes up a lot of space and is comparatively slow to read.

  • Grade 2 braille

    • Grade 2 braille was developed to reduce the size of books and make reading quicker.
    • Other symbols are used to represent common letter combinations, for example 'OW', 'ER', and words such as 'AND' and 'FOR'.
    • Combinations of two symbols are also used to represent some words, eg 'THROUGH'.
    • Some characters may change their meaning, depending on how they are spaced.

SKU: 01-1100-0