Braille alphabet bracelet with pearl

A local Denton adult female has a passion and a mission.

As a mother of a son who was bullheaded past the age of only two months former, Leslie Ligon is passionate most promoting braille literacy.   It seems unbelievable but ninety% of people who are blind or visually-impaired are unable to read braille.   Unfortunately, braille illiteracy for a visually-impaired person tin go on them from being fully contained.   It greatly reduces their liberty and their chances of finding employment.   Illiteracy, in any language, can keep a person isolated from so many slap-up resources and experiences in the world around them.

Leslie Ligon is on a mission to practice what she can to promote awareness of the importance of braille education, for both sighted people as well every bit those with visual impairments.

Leslie creates braille jewelry.   What an incredibly wonderful and unique idea!

Most of her jewelry pieces consist of tiles and charms with raised braille letters that spell out inspiring words or fifty-fifty personalized words or names.

Just At Beginning Sight'south popular braille alphabet bracelet is specially unique.   It is made of tiles that spell out the complete alphabet in braille with the corresponding letter stamped on the back of the tile.   It is not only a beautiful bracelet that could be quite a chat starter just it likewise serves as an effective and creative style for anyone to learn braille.

Leslie starting tinkering with the idea for her unique braille jewelry in 2001 and shortly At First Sight Braille Jewelry was born.   Since then her braille jewelry has been listed in the 2009 Forbes Woman Souvenir Giving Guide and the braille alphabet bracelet received the 2010 Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum People's Pattern Honor.

She Is Dallas Info: For more than information well-nigh At Starting time Sight Braille Jewelry, please call them at 214-675-4061 or visit their website.   You tin also observe At First Sight Braille Jewelry on Facebook.   Information about blindness and resources for the blind or visually-impaired can exist constitute at the American Foundation for the Blind's website.

Kids Activities Blog is Holly's blogging home.

She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Elementary Science Experiments.

She is the mom of 3 boys ages xiii, 15 & 17 who partially homeschools. She believes that you lot shouldn't have to buy stuff to have fun when there is a kitchen junk drawer full of possibilities.