BY Jeff Natalie-Lees, Aberdeen News
Jordan Houseman, a 10-year-old student at the South Dakota School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Aberdeen, is one of the 10 percent of the blind nationwide who are learning to read and write Braille. The number of students learning Braille has declined each decade since the 1950s, when more than 50 percent of the blind learned it, according to a 2009 report from the National Federation of the Blind. The reasons are many, including widespread integration of visually impaired students into the classroom, medical procedures that can improve vision, computer voice recognition technology, audio texts and other technology, according to the report.
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