“In the fast paced world our children inhabit today and will inherit, literacy skills alone are not sufficient to access this information. Our charge is to provide them with tools that will enable them fully to participate in this new world.”

Lueck, Dote-Kwan, Senge and Clarke
Review May 2001

Our current braille learning students have been born at the beginning of the Age of Information. We can only guess what the world will look like in 20 years but it is clear that it is going to be very different from today and that technology will continue to play an increasingly important role in our lives.

Our basic concepts of braille literacy have to change to meet these challenges. Simply learning the braille code is no longer sufficient and a new definition of braille literacy is needed which encompasses the technology skills that will enable students to independently access information in the reading format that suits them.