Children especially seem to delight in such correspondence.
Although both young people are blind, they can reach out and touch someone by letter through a program called Slate-Mates. Wilcox, a sophomore at Ann Arbor's Pioneer High School, has been writing Braille letters to his friend Melody in San Francisco for about a year. Their mutual interests include computers. I am more used to printing. The writer uses the stylus to push Braille dots into the paper, using the slate as a guide.