The Ministry of Education celebrates World Braille Day every year on January 4 to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a vital form of communication for persons with visual disabilities, to inspire them to read and write, and to solidify their physical presence in their communities.
Based on its dedication to enabling blind people to obtain their education through initiatives to integrate persons with visual impairments in general education schools, the Ministry gives particular focus to promoting the spread and use of the Braille technique in education.
Because of their positive effects on visually impaired students and their families in the academic, psychological, and social spheres, schools are also the educational and appropriate setting for them to receive their education alongside their fellow students and close to their residence, as well as to provide them with special education services.
The Ministry offers a variety of assistive tools and resources in Braille. It worked to modify the general education curricula and publish them in braille to facilitate the educational process for students with visual disabilities.
Additionally, the ministry is keen to provide engineering tools for the blind with braille symbols, including screen readers and textbook magnifiers, whiteboard magnifiers and reading magnifiers, braille embosser machines, and printers for writing in Braille.
Furthermore, the Teaching Aids Center plays a vital role in producing raised and embossed maps and tangible educational models for the blind, in addition to the assistive technologies provided by the Ministry for the Blind.
