About
What is Braille Adventures?
Learning braille can be overwhelming; let us help make the journey fun and meaningful!
Braille Adventures is a supportive and vibrant online community, here to encourage you to learn braille. We have 100+ videos, free resources, product reviews for supplementary learning aids, and we host events and virtual braille challenges.
Choose Your Path - Braille 101 or Transcriber's Certification
Braille 101
Braille is a tactile reading and writing system that uses a combination of six dots to write numbers, letters, and punctuation.
Braille 101 Resources:
Braille reference charts (Visit our Freebies page)
Recommended books and other learning aids (Visit our Affiliate page)
My technique for sight-reading braille (video)
Affordable braille books $10 or less (video)
How to install a braille font (video)
How to load paper into a Perkins Brailler (video)
Slate & Stylus 101 (video)
Free braille software for beginners (video)
Transcriber's Certification
National Library Service (NLS) offers a free, national certification for US citizens. Start with the Literary Braille Certification course - it is the prerequisite for the other braille certifications. The correspondence course is comprised of 20 lessons, which are available for instant download as PDFs or as a BRF (Braille Ready File).
Student Transcriber Resources:
How to get started (video)
UEB Study Group Trailer (video)
UEB Study Group (Facebook group for student transcribers, not affiliated with NLS)
Progress chart for NLS course (Visit our Freebies page.)
Rules of Unified English Braille, 2013 (codebook for transcribing)
Formats, 2016 (codebook for transcribing)
Elizabeth Symington
Certified Braille Transcriber, Scored 100% on the manuscript
BFA- studied interactive art, Academy of Art University, graduated Cum Laude
Teacher of the Visually Impaired, San Francisco State University
My teaching philosophy is to utilize everyday objects to practice braille in fun and meaningful ways. Wouldn't you rather take a pop quiz where you got to write words in braille using M&Ms and then eat them when you're done?!
I founded this online community to build friendships with other braille fanatics, to share learning resources, and to rally each other to keep studying!
How I got into braille (video)