
Learn about Braille with Awesome Kid Layla
Clip: 6/30/2023 | 2m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
From Story Pirates, Layla explains how the braille alphabet works and how she reads it.
From Story Pirates, awesome kid Layla explains how the braille alphabet works and how she reads it. We learn that braille is made up of dots and discover the difference between braille letters and numbers. Layla shares how she felt when she learned braille and encourages us to do the same!
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Learn about Braille with Awesome Kid Layla
Clip: 6/30/2023 | 2m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
From Story Pirates, awesome kid Layla explains how the braille alphabet works and how she reads it. We learn that braille is made up of dots and discover the difference between braille letters and numbers. Layla shares how she felt when she learned braille and encourages us to do the same!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship-Hi, my name is Lyla.
I'm ten years old and I live in Washington and I'm a kid expert on Braille.
-We see Lila, an awesome kid, wearing a pink fleece, sitting in a black swivel chair like a boss in her home.
The words "Lyla Braille Expert" appear onscreen, you know, because she's the star of this video.
Underneath we see the words also written out in Braille.
-Braille is basically a series of dots that make up letters and words.
-The Braille alphabet for the visually impaired is seen with the English letters below.
It looks like a cool music chart.
♪ La laaa!
-I read it wish just my whole fingertip.
It's not like just the top of it.
And we have our own alphabet.
It's not like your guys' M. Like say I'm writing "math."
-The word math appears onscreen in both English and Braille.
The M is highlighted in red.
Actually, can we change that highlight to rainbow colored?
[ Shimmering tune plays ] Whoa!
It changed!
Awesome!
-You guys' M would be different than my M in Braille.
So we like get our like own language.
So A is a dot, B is, you know, two dots.
But when we turn into numbers, basically, it's kind of a letter.
It's a letter, so, like, A would be 1 and B would be 2.
But how you know it's a number is there's a symbol and it's called a number sign and then followed by the number.
I just want you guys to know that learning Braille was actually really fun.
Like there are like stuff like X in Braille feels really cool.
-Four dots representing the letter X appear onscreen.
Wish I could touch that letter.
-Like a whole line of X is really cool.
-The Braille symbol for X multiplies, making two dotted lines.
That is super cool!
-If you just open up your mind, like don't think about print, Just get into your learning mode, just like if you're learning a new thing in print or if you're learning how to write in cursive, just open up your mind to that one skill and just let it leak into your brain.
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