Fewer than 10 percent of blind Americans can read Braille

Thursday, March 26, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT; updated 7:55 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 26, 2009

BALTIMORE  — Jordan Gilmer has a degenerative condition that eventually will leave him completely blind. But as a child, his teachers did not emphasize Braille, the system of reading in which a series of raised dots signify letters of the alphabet.

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