Young Heroes: Louis Braille (with Captions and Description)

Dramatizes the life of Louis Braille, including the events that caused him to become blind as well as the cause of his death in 1852 at the age of 43 of tuberculosis. Illustrates the development of the Braille System, which he created in 1824 at the age of 15, and how it was at first rejected and even banned at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth (where Braille attended as a child and was later employed as a teacher).

A resource guide (with expanded Braille information and resource links) is available from the following URL:
http://dcmp.org/guides/brailleguide

DCMP members: borrow a DVD of this title (or stream it from our website) by visiting the following URL:
http://www.dcmp.org/Catalog/TitleDetail.aspx?TID=6362

Thanks to Protocol Entertainment (http://www.protocolent.com/) for authorizing the DCMP to provide this title to the world via our YouTube channel.

Thanks to CNIB (http://www.cnib.ca) for authorizing the DCMP to utilize the "Young Heroes: Louis Braille" audio description track.

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Education

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• braille
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• blindness
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• audio description
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• pignier
• education
• dcmp
• captions
• closed captioning
• video description
• descriptive video
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• protocol entertainment

[enterthehatch2]

There are none so blind as those who can not see... So true

[HimeYorunoTsuki]

thank you for the video an the audiodescription, is difficult to find movies with it, I'm blind and I was doing a reserch from Louis Braille for my french class, and it was so hard for me to find information about him beacause wepages are not easy to acces the information when you use a screen reader like JAWS, until I found this video, I'm so happy now! I will like to show my classmates this nice video about Louis Braille! I don't mind if it's not in french lol

[madpie1234567]

this is so so sad



[ajlee35]

w/ my glasses, i can see just fine, but i am still ticked that there's not more video documentaries on this young man. i read about him while i was in middle school, and he was FASCINATING. what he accomplished was truly amazing. be proud, france, he is one of your best inventors

[joaoalfredoc]

very good



[he3rtbrok3n]

@DarkQuietWyattON i see. oh i want to study judism when im older. oh you have autism? and dont think you have a disability, because you dont, you just see the world differently and if i might say, better. and for the t.v thing, well you can imagine it right? it makes it more fun :)

[DarkQuietWyattON]

@he3rtbrok3n -As for the calling each other "retarded" thing. I don't mind if I hear people doing that. I am not sure why I don't mind. I am Jewish and I have had friends who teased me about it and would say "Wyatt, go Jew him down" or when I complained of being cold they would say "Stop being a kike pop". It was meant in humor and not malice so I would chuckle. Now if someone calls me names in hatred....that is a WHOLE different story.

[DarkQuietWyattON]

@he3rtbrok3n --I am 19. I actually have high fuctioning autism too. I attend a special school for kids with disabilities (you stay here until you are 21). I don't mind it when people say things like "I am blind as a bat" or anything like that. Some people don't even want to say "Lets watch tv" around me but its a phrase I use myself. Its just in our language.

I annoys me when people call me "retard" or "r-tard" but that does not happen very often because everyone here has "problems"

[he3rtbrok3n]

@DarkQuietWyattON how old are you? you seem very machure. oh im sorry, i didnt mean to. sometimes i say the wrong thing the wrong way. um im not trying to be mean when i ask this but do you hate it when people say "im as blind as a bat, i cant even see the school board from where i sit." because my sister has autism and i hate it when people call each other "retarted" because they dont know whats its like to have a learning disability. you dont have to answer if you dont want to.

[DarkQuietWyattON]

@he3rtbrok3n Oh I am sorry. I thought you were being sarcastic or something. I apologize. There are A LOT of items to help the blind, deaf and those with mobility issues (I am not deaf and I can move around just find but there are people at my school who cannot). Its amazing when you think that Braille had nothing and actually had to invent the Braille system and we have so much. It makes me respect the man (well I guess boy would be the right word as he was young when he invented it) much more!