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There’s a national shortage of Braille teachers and the situation is dire
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US facing national shortage of braille teachers
Courtesy Emily Coleman
ByFaith Bernstein
October 15, 2019, 8:35 am
"When my son was born, he was the first blind person I’d ever met," Emily Coleman told "Good Morning America."
Coleman, 40, now works as a superintendent for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, in Austin, and is an advocate for Braille education. But before her son, now 14, was born in 2005, she didn’t realize the extent of the nation’s need for Braille educators and services for blind children.
There is a national shortage of educators who know and can teach braille, and it’s leaving children who need their services in a dire predicament.
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