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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Louis Braille was Born January 4, 1809 which is now designated as
<a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/braille-day">World Braille Day</a> by the UN. In the US, January is is
<a href="https://brailleworks.com/braille-literacy-month-2016/amp/" style="">Braille Awareness Month</a>; since 1992 the first week of January has been designated </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24px;">Ohio Braille Literacy
Week </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24px;">(</span><a href="https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5.226" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24px;">ORC: 5.226</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24px;">) </span></div>
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<li><span>Test your knowledge <a href="https://clovernook.org/2021/06/21/ten-facts-about-braille/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI56Dx6NqU9QIVqBZMCh3YtAWsEAAYAiAAEgLmkvD_BwE" style="">Ten Braille Facts</a> </span></li><li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Support Braille literacy </span><a href="https://clovernook.org/youth-services/braille-challenge/" style="font-size: inherit;">Ohio Regional Braille Challenge</a><span style="font-size: inherit;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-size: inherit;">Submit a proposal on education, music or power and disability for the 22nd annual </span><a href="https://ada.osu.edu/ada-conference" style="font-size: inherit;">Multiple Perspe</a></li></ul>
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to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge. </b>Louis Braille<b> </b></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight: bold; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">Braille is knowledge. Knowledge is Power. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">Louis
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to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. </b></span></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">L. Scott Lissner, Americans With Disabilities Act Coordinator & Section 504 Compliance Officer, The Ohio State University Office for Institutional Equity.
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<div style="direction:ltr">“The American story is about the slow, yet steady widening of opportunity. Make no mistake: too many dreams have been deferred for too long. We must make the promise of the country real for everybody — no matter their race, their
ethnicity, their faith, their identity or their disability”.</div>
<div style="direction:ltr">— President-Elect Joe Biden, 11/7/20</div>
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