A number of the women at the Washington Corrections Center for Women at Purdy have become certified as Braille translators at the national level, the newspaper reports, explaining:
That honor means they won’t have to keep retaking the state exam every five years and that they can proceed on to more advanced subject areas.
Translating texts into Braille isn’t as simple as substituting a single block of dots for a letter. There are lots of extra rules to which one must pay attention.
For example, the two dots used to spell out the word "be" can also mean "bb" depending on how it's used, Dixon explained. By putting different prefixes on the word "the," one can make "there" or "these."
