{"id":1580,"date":"2024-02-17T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/braille-what-is-it-like-to-read-without-sight-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:50:35","slug":"braille-what-is-it-like-to-read-without-sight-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/braille-what-is-it-like-to-read-without-sight-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Braille: What is it like to read without sight? \u2013 BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_mzhn7InWDg?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The 53-year-old Londoner Red Szell lost his sight several years ago due to the degenerative eye condition Retinitis pigmentosa \u2013 and has used audiobooks ever since.<\/p>\n<p>But earlier this year, Szell decided to learn Braille, with unexpected results. In this video Red explores what effect learning to read Braille can have on your brain, and interviews a neuroscientist whose studies have revealed surprising findings.<\/p>\n<p>Script &#038; narration by Red Szell<br \/>\nFilmed &#038; edited by Chris Griffiths<br \/>\nAnimation by Archie Crofton<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Reel: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbcreel?sub_confirmation=1 <\/p>\n<p>More videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #bbcreel #bbcnews #science #disability<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_mzhn7InWDg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 53-year-old Londoner Red Szell lost his sight several years ago due to the degenerative eye condition Retinitis pigmentosa \u2013 and has used audiobooks ever since. But earlier this year, Szell decided to learn Braille, with unexpected results. In this video Red explores what effect learning to read Braille can have on your brain, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}