I'm a little puzzled and appalled by an article on CNN's website this morning. Entitled "Blind Preschool Kids Embrace Braille," it talks about--well, just what the headline implies.

The "puzzled and appalled" came from these two paragraphs:

...Until the 1960s and 1970s, many blind children attended specialized residential schools, where Braille was taught extensively. But mainstreaming sent many of those children to public schools, which had neither the trained staff nor the equipment to teach the alphabet.

At about the same time, according to advocates for the blind, audio equipment started replacing Braille in classrooms. It was more convenient, but didn't teach students how to read...

So these poor kids have gone through school not learning how to read just because audio material was available? What kind of nonsense is this?

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