braille square

 
Learning Braille

Braille - as I see it!

The Braille square

10 patterns of dots

Creating the letters

Developing the invention

Look-alike letters

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The 10 distinguishable dot patterns

10 dot patterns   1 corner dot
  1 vertical line
  1 horizontal line
  2 diagonal lines
  1 square
  4 corners

Each of the dot patterns can be used to represent a letter of the alphabet and as there are 10 patterns they can be assigned to the first 10 letters. But what letter is to go with what shape? What is proposed here is that we use an automatic method to sort them; one that is so simple that a child can use it.
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