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The French Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for Blind Youth), in Paris, was the first special school for blind students in the world, and served as a model for many subsequent schools for blind students.
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The National Institute for Blind Youth (Institut national des jeunes aveugles, INJA), created in 1785 and Louis Braille’s second home, owes its existence to Valentin Haüy, a scholar who was dedicated from early on to the welfare of blind and visually impaired people.
The Institute was the first school for blind children anywhere in the world. It was founded in 1786 by Valentin Haüy, a pioneer in the education of students who are blind. Haüy was born in 1745, and when he was in his twenties, he witnessed an incident where blind people were ridiculed and made fun.
20 de jun. de 2021 · Exactly 200 years ago, in June 1821, a crucial experiment was taking place in a school on the rue St-Victor in Paris. The school was the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (the Royal Institution for Blind Youth) and the students were learning to read and write using a system of raised dots in a code….
19 de ago. de 2020 · Although Louis was no longer there to advocate his system, blind people recognised its brilliance and it was finally implemented in The Royal Institution for Blind Youth in 1854. It rapidly spread through France and soon internationally – officially adopted in the US in 1916 and in the UK in 1932.
At the very young age of ten, Braille earned a scholarship to the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institution for Blind Youth) in Paris, one of the first of its kind in the world. The scholarship was his ticket out of the usual fate for the blind—begging for money on the streets of Paris.
