Resources for parents

Books

• Fun with Braille (APH)
  This book, available through the American Printing House for the Blind, contains many fun and entertaining practise activities for both children and adults who are learning contracted braille.
• Perkins Brailler Store
  The official store for the Perkins Brailler and its accessories.

Books for Parents

• Fun with Braille (APH)
  This book, available through the American Printing House for the Blind, contains many fun and entertaining practise activities for both children and adults who are learning contracted braille.
• Just Enough to Know Better (UEB) – A Braille Primer for Parents
  This book, sold through National Braille Press and written by Eileen Curran, teaches parents just enough braille to know better and to help their braille-reading child. The book contains exercises with real, tactile braille for practice.
• Perkins Brailler Store
  The official store for the Perkins Brailler and its accessories.

Braille Technology

• Perkins Brailler Store
  The official store for the Perkins Brailler and its accessories.

French-language resources

• AbracadaBraille – About Braille (in French)
  An illustrated French-language introduction to the braille cell, the alphabet, and tools for reading and writing braille.
• BAnQ – Quebec Adapted Book Service (SQLA)
  North America’s largest collection of French-language adapted books, including about 20,000 braille titles, loaned free by mail to Quebec residents.
• CELA Library (Centre for Equitable Library Access)
  CELA provides accessible library services to Canadians with print disabilities, including audio, e-text, and braille books (digital and embossed), through their public libraries.
• NNELS – National Network for Equitable Library Service
  Canada’s online public library of books in accessible formats for people with print disabilities.
• Tactile Vision Graphics – French braille children’s books
  Braille children’s books, including French titles, as well as colouring books and tactile maps.
• Valentin Haüy Association – Learn Braille (in French)
  Correspondence courses (based in France) in uncontracted and contracted French braille, open to sighted and blind learners. Fees are €50 per module per year for individuals.

Resources

• Future Aids - The Braille Superstore
  Thousands of braille books for children, teens, and adults, as well as toys, games, kitchen aids, software, and other products.

Sources of Braille Books and Resources

• Beulah Reimer Legacy (BRL)
  Offers print/braille children's picture books at an affordable cost. These books are brailled with clear plastic strips which are placed on top of the printed text.
• Bookshare
  Bookshare is an online digital library with over 110,000 books available to download in accessible formats (such as DAISY, braille, or audio) to Canadians who have print disabilities. Users must register and provide proof of disability before being able to access this service.
• Braille It
  This family-run, Canadian business offers a variety of services including braille transcription, training in assistive technology, and other blindness-related services.
• CELA Library (Centre for Equitable Library Access)
  CELA provides accessible library services to Canadians with print disabilities, including audio, e-text, and braille books (digital and embossed), through their public libraries.
• CNIB SmartLife
  CNIB SmartLife offers a wide variety of products for Canadians who are blind or partially sighted, including many braille-related products such as calendars and tools for reading and writing braille.
• Future Aids - The Braille Superstore
  Thousands of braille books for children, teens, and adults, as well as toys, games, kitchen aids, software, and other products.
• L'Institut Nazareth et Louis Braille - Comptoir des ventes
• National Braille Press
  A producer of braille books for children and adults (including print/braille board books for very young children). They also run several programs, including a children's braille book club and a ReadBooks! book bag for preschool-aged children designed to foster early literacy.
• National Federation of the Blind Independence Market
  A resource for blindness-related products, including an extensive collection of NFB literature of interest to individuals who are blind and their families.
• Perkins School for the Blind Shop
  The Perkins School for the Blind online shop sells a wide variety of blindness-related products, including many products related to braille and literacy.
• RNIB Online Shop
  The RNIB online shop carries a variety of products for people who are blind and visually impaired, including many braille- and literacy-related products.
• Seedlings Braille Books for Children
  Seedlings has over 1200 low-cost books for children in braille, including print/braille books for younger children. They also run several programs, including the "Book Angel Program" where registered children can receive two free braille books per year, and an "Adopt-A-Reader" program that provides sponsored children with funding to purchase braille books of their own.

Websites

• Demo Video: Loading paper into a Perkins Brailler
  This video gives a detailed description of loading a Perkins brailler with paper, while describing the parts of the brailler. It also reviews in detail how to remove paper from the Perkins brailler.
• National Braille Press
  A producer of braille books for children and adults (including print/braille board books for very young children). They also run several programs, including a children's braille book club and a ReadBooks! book bag for preschool-aged children designed to foster early literacy.