Louis Braille School

The Louis Braille School invites you to stop by the Edmonds Public Library during the month of January, which is National Braille Literacy Month. Visit the main lobby display case to see our exhibit.

You will learn about Louis Braille, the Frenchman who invented the raised dot system of reading and writing. January is his birth month. A slate and stylus, the primary means of writing braille during Louis’ time, are there for you to view along with a brailler and a chart of the braille alphabet and numbers.

Several tactile items are on exhibit including three pictures created especially for our school by the Seattle Area Delta Gamma Alumnae Group, a talking puzzle of the United States, a braille watch, a ruler, a measuring tape, and a popular children’s book in braille and print.

Beautiful tactile flags of the United States, Canada, and Mexico made by volunteers are proudly hanging for all to see. There is a talking world globe which is particularly popular at Louis Braille School summer braille camps.

The Edmonds Public Library is located at 605 Main Street, Edmonds, WA 98020. Visit the library website at http://www.sno-isle.org/or call 425-771-1933 for more information or directions.

Press Release

Louis Braille School Presents:
The “Touch to See” Program
at Imagine Children’s Museum

In celebration of National Braille Literacy Month, the Imagine Children’s Museum is featuring a special presentation by the Louis Braille School. The “Touch to See” program will be on Saturday, January 12, from 11 am to 2 pm. Visitors to the museum will have the opportunity to braille their names on a braille writer, explore braille books with tactile illustrations, and try a talking calculator and braille watch. They will meet a guide dog and enjoy a story read in braille by the guide dog’s handler.

The Louis Braille School, located in Edmonds, is a private, non-profit, day school for children who are visually impaired. January is the birth month of Louis Braille, the Frenchman who developed the raised dot system of reading and writing. Visit the Louis Braille School website at http://www.louisbrailleschool.org or contact the school at 425-778-2384

Imagine Children’s Museum, “a place where fun begins and learning never ends” is located in downtown Everett. Dedicated to helping children understand the world around them, the Museum is proud to partner with the Louis Braille School for the “Touch to See” program.

Visit Imagine Children’s Museum website at http://www.ImagineCM.org or call 425-258-1006.
Press coverage.

On a drizzly Sunday afternoon in October, Louis Braille School director Carolyn Meyer joined guide dog puppies-in-training and their trainers at Fall City Farms in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade mountains. The trainers, affiliated with Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California, were from the Western Washington puppy training group. The crowd enjoyed freshly pressed apple juice, toured the working farm and purchased organic produce from the little store. One young pup showed up in a scarecrow costume in honor of the Halloween season.

For information about Guide Dogs for the Blind, visit www.guidedogs.com. To learn about puppy raising, click Programs/Dog Programs/Puppy Raising.

For information about the farm, go to www.fallcityfarms.com

On Tuesday, September 4, 2007, the Louis Braille School will welcome students for the 2007-2008 school year.

The school, approved by the Washington State Board of Education, provides a ten-month academic program. Instruction in skills of everyday living and orientation and mobility is integrated into activities throughout the day. The school features individualized educational programs and hands-on individual attention for each student.

Tuition is $1,500 per month. Financial assistance is available. No child is denied because of a family’s inability to pay.

To register your child or to make an appointment to visit the school, call 425-778-2384, or email Christina

Spring 2007

The Louis Braille School received a community grant totaling $2,500 from The Fred Meyer Foundation. The funds will support the activities, supplies and staff needed for the School’s two-week summer Braille Camp.

Braille Camp is a two-week summer day program for children who are blind or visually impaired in kindergarten through grade eight. The Camp runs from July 16th through July 27th, 10 am to 2 pm. Campers meet at the Louis Braille School, 10130 Edmonds Way in Edmonds, Washington. Tuition is $250 per child.

Activities planned for Braille Camp this year include a trip to the Edmonds Fire Station, Swedish folk songs and dances, red clay pottery with an Edmonds artist, hands-on country and blues music with Blues in the Schools, drumming with LaDrumma, the Woodland Park Zoo Education Outreach Wild Wise Program, and Guide Dogs for the Blind puppies-in-training and their trainers.

Glynda Brockoff, Philanthropy Coordinator for Fred Meyer and The Fred Meyer Foundation, said. We hope this community grant will help the School continue the important work it is doing to enhance the welfare of the community. We are proud to be part of the Edmonds community and are committed to helping where we can. These grants are the result of true community efforts involving both our associates through our annual Employee Giving Campaign and our customers through the contributions they make in our stores using the Make Change Count coin boxes and scan cards at the check stands

Fred Meyer is a division of the The Kroger Co., which is one of the nation’s largest food retailers. The Fred Meyer Foundation has awarded grants totaling over $7.2 million since it began awarding grants in December 1998. For more information call the Foundation at 1-800-858-9202, ext. 5605.