Reading Rockets

In my CEP class today, we watched a Reading Rockets video, which focused on teaching children with special needs. It touched on teaching children who are Blind. One of the interesting things I learned from this is that only about 10% of people who are blind can use braille. Knowing this puts Charlie's character on the outskirts of what is normal. Throughout this book, i questioned the realisitic-ness of both the story lines and the characters.... and although i enjoyed this book, i think that it was quite unrealisitic, and hearing that statistic jjust makes it more obvious. Yes, Charlie did show a successful character who was blind, but i'm just not sure quite how i feel about it.