But a baby with a visual impairment won't be as interested in a world he can't see. Specialists trained to help kids who are visually impaired can help the baby develop normally, even though he can't see. If a baby is born with a visual impairment, most ophthalmologists will tell the mom or dad to put the baby in special learning programs while he is still very small. Because a lot of what you learn in school comes from books, you might wonder how visually impaired kids learn. Well, kids who are visually impaired can learn to read by using a special system called braille.
Braille is made up of a series of little bumps that stick up from a surface.
The bumps are arranged in different ways to represent numbers and letters. Kids who are visually impaired read by feeling the bumps with their fingertips. Then it can be produced on paper or even spoken into words. Visually impaired kids can also learn from and enjoy books and magazines by listening to voice recordings of others reading the words. In the past, kids who were visually impaired had to go to special schools where they lived away from home.