Braille Challenge offers competition and community for blind students

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Wed, 2017-04-19 18:00
The scene is set in downtown Raleigh North Carolina, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, where a group of seventeen visually impaired students compete in the Eastern North Carolina Regional Braille Challenge. Of those Regional contenders, fifty will be invited to participate in the 2017 National Braille Challenge which is sponsored by the non-profit Braille Institute.

The spotlight focused Thursday in downtown Raleigh on a group of students who don’t normally get to show off their academic competitiveness – visually impaired students.

Parents of competing students reflect on past hardships they have encountered with having competitions for impaired students to join in on. The Braille institute has made it possible for these students to participate in an environment that makes them comfortable to compete in reading comprehension, spelling, proofreading, and speed and accuracy. The National event in May is expected to have more than 1,100 students.
The spotlight focused Thursday in downtown Raleigh on a group of students who don’t normally get to show off their academic competitiveness – visually impaired students. Seventeen students came to the Church of the Good Shepherd to compete in the Eastern North Carolina Regional Braille Challenge.
~ News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)

Key Takeaways:

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Seventeen vision impaired students gathered in Raleigh NC to compete in the Eastern North Carolina Regional Braille Challenge.
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The National Braille Challenge is the only competition of its kind for vision impaired students.
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The Braille Challenge not only encourages competition, but also allows for socialization between students.
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