Diana Monahan contacted National Braille Week to advise that she found the site interesting and hopes to involve her school in National Braille Week. She has suggested a couple of ideas below for others who might be interested in doing the same.
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Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford offer tactile and large font diagram books in their national Cold War Exhibition.
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The Ancient House Museum, Thetford are putting on 2 days of special events to mark the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth on the 9th and 10th January 2009.
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The first online Braille writing application which allows people to send 'secret' messages has been created by social media company Yomego to support Royal Blind's National Braille Week (Jan 4-10, 2008).
Visitors to www.nationalbrailleweek.org (officially live on 4th January 2008) will be able to send an e-card with their messages rendered into a Braille image using the Yomego entertainment platform. The recipients will then follow a link back to the Royal Blind site to decode the message.
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