S4E24 - How Braille and Assistive Technology Changed My Life with Marisa Sposaro

Marisa, can you tell us a bit about yourself, please?

I...

I'm a Braille user, so I love books and I love music and I love food.

That's helpful, yes.

And I'm

classified as totally blind.

Yeah.

Or vision impaired or whatever the terminology is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So for you, do you mind if I ask? Did you learn, if you were a braille user, you would have learned braille at school?

I did.

And, you know, I remember it so clearly.

I started learning braille at the age of five.

Yeah.

And I was at the school for the blind.

Yeah.

In Victoria.

Yeah.

Before school, before I started school, I couldn't understand why I couldn't read the print in the books.

And I used to open the book and I used to say, I can't read.

Where are the letters? I used to say.

So when I went to school and I learnt Braille, I loved it so much.

And I was always reading after that.