Just like each of our normal people, educational and literacy is critical to the health of perspective. Education provides vigorous development for perspective, contributing to society and has a successful opportunity. The reading and writing skills of the Braille system are essential for the employment of visually impaired people, so that 80% of visually impaired people can read Braille.
However, in recent years, Braille literacy rate has been declining. Today, less than 10% of children in children can read Braille, and the 1950th blem reading rate is about 50%. What is the consequence? More than 70% of the adults of vision disorders are unemployed.
One reason for this trend is the lack of Braille education. Compared with the visually impaired students, the number of Braille teachers in the United States should be much less.
According to the National Blind Union, "long-term lack of qualified professor Braille teachers. According to reports, in 2003, approximately 6,700 Chinese-day blind students provide services to approximately 93,600 students"
Another reason for this trend can be attributed to the progress and availability of personal audio players and text voice conversion technologies, which eliminates the demand for visual impairment to understand Braille to collect information. Although audio can provide information for students, it does not teach them to read and write skills, such as grammar, spelling, and composition, and this is essential for reading and writing skills.
Chris Danielsen, member of the National Blind Union, said: "Audio can provide you with information, but you can't let you literate."
Jim Marks, a Council of Higher Education and Disabled Association, said: "We will no longer teach how to read and write our country's blind children."
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Knobo's vision is a computer application and HID (Human Interface Equipment) system that will make full use of computer voice to help Braille education. The computer application will be used as a learning platform, and users can access digital Braille courses. In short, the app will be a Braille Duolingo. The app will output an audio, and students will use Knobo HID to enter Braille and browse the app.
With Knobo, Braille Education will be more easier than ever, I hope this project will become a key step to reverse learning of Braille knowledge.
Knobo's learning platform is still under development. In the current state of the project, KNOBO is a super-portable HID (man-machine interface device) with two purposes: allowing visual impair people to learn and practice Braille systems independently, and make visually impaired people to browse and enter on the computer. .
For learning Braille visually impaired people, Knobo is an excellent learning tool. Traditionally, a Braille lecturer is required to confirm that the words or letters written by students are correct. With Knobo, students will receive immediate audio feedback on the blind letters or words they have just written, which is very suitable for students to practice Braille in their home or unable to use Braille lecturer.
For those who are familiar with Braille but without computer experience, use Knobo, they can start typing immediately, not to say that it is much more compact than the standard keyboard, and has additional scroll / read knobs.
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