Braille Literacy

Sanskriti Dawle, Aman Srivastava, Dilip Ramesh and Saif Shaikh started Thinkerbell Labs. Its flagship product, Annie is a self-learning braille device which acts as a personal tutor with audio-guided lessons, available in multiple regional languages.

Ed-tech startup Thinkerbell Labs have built the world’s first ‘self-learning’ braille device, which aims to make it easier for children with visual impairments read, write, and type braille. Here’s why their award-winning device could be a gamechanger.

Despite a sizeable visually-impaired population, India’s Braille literacy ranks among the lowest in the world. This World Braille Day, a new innovation hopes to change that statistic by using unique features to make learning Braille fun and simple for India’s visually-impaired children.