User:Mary the writer

Hello My dear students. Today we are going to start the first part of our journey with a brief introduction to the topic.

Now, lets explore the first part of our lesson by reading a couple of sentences and then i am waiting for your comments on that.

step one: exploring topic sentences

Lack of access to reading and writing put blind people at a serious disadvantage in nineteenth-century society[1]. Text was one of the primary methods through which people engaged with culture, communicated with others, and accessed information; without a well-developed reading system that did not rely on sight, blind people were excluded from social participation (Weygand, 2009). While disabled people in general suffered from discrimination, blindness was widely viewed as the worst disability, and it was commonly believed that blind people were incapable of pursuing a profession or improving themselves through culture (Weygand, 2009). This demonstrates the importance of reading and writing to social status at the time: without access to text, it was considered impossible to fully participate in society. Blind people were excluded from the sighted world, but also entirely dependent on sighted people for information and education.