Learning Braille Made Easy, or At Least Easier Filed under: Gayle Goes Blogging I grew up being one of those kids who fell through the cracks when it came to learning Braille. If I wrote with a thick black ink pen I could, very, very slowly, read what I wrote. I never could easily read large print. So, I did not read. I discovered talking books in my senior year of high school and really took off in the reading area. I was able to get by with the dark pen and wrote really large for communicating with myself. When I was 30, I needed to stop being a stay-at-home mom and go out to find a job. I connected with services for the blind where I was living and was visited by a counselor. He brought me a deck of Braille playing cards, a Perkins Brailler, and a self-teaching book on Braille. They also signed me up for typing lessons. There I was with this odd-looking machine and a book full of what may as well have been a foreign language. I was busy with three little kids and trying to sell my house and find a job. The idea of learning Braille challenged me. The idea of learning something so different felt like a way to remind myself that I could still learn. I already knew how to type and the lessons would just increase speed, while Braille, well, it was just a bunch of dots that felt