Braille Refreshers
Braille Refreshers is a program from APH that will “give your braille knowledge new life” (or refresh it) by sharing a weekly piece of braille instruction in the form of a no-stakes question that gives immediate feedback. The questions are created and responded to in SurveyMonkey.
Once you sign up, a new Braille Refresher question arrives in your email inbox every week. It takes about ninety seconds to complete a question, and each email comes with a braille code book reference and/or an additional study resource. This service was originally designed to support TVIs who are between braille students.
If you have an idea for a Braille Refresher question, please email it to BrailleImprovement@aph.org. We particularly appreciate submissions that include the question and a collection of answer choices. But we are open to any request or suggestion!
You can sign up today to receive weekly Braille Refresher questions and give your braille knowledge new life by completing the mailing list sign-up form and checking the box for Braille Refreshers. Braille on!
Braille Refreshers Archive
Explore the questions below in the Braille Refresher archive. This archive will be updated regularly. Remember, these no-stakes Braille Refreshers are for fun. We are not here to test you or pressure you.
2024
- Parks and Music (October 23, 2024)
- Placement of Labels That are Graphic (October 16, 2024)
- Where? There?! (October 9, 2024)
- Questions for Annual Meeting 2024
- Flat Feline Faces Expression (October 2, 2024)
- All in the Family (September 25, 2024)
- Math Teacher “Meal” (September 18, 2024)
- How Many Textures? (September 11, 2024)
- Teenage Mutant Morphology (September 4, 2024)
- Be Like the HUMMINGbird! (August 28, 2024)
- A Diamond in the “Ruff” (August 21, 2024)
- CelebrEIGHT! (August 14, 2024)
- Only YOU Can Play the Right Notes! (August 7, 2024)
- A “Whaley” Good One (July 31, 2024)
- Hungry Hungry Numbers (July 24, 2024)
- Words from Mandela (July 17, 2024)
- Stay out of TREBLE (July 10, 2024)
- Not a Thousand Words, Please (July 3, 2024)
- June 2024 Bonus Question
- Tag! You’re It! (June 26, 2024)
- Happy Birthday, Helen Keller! (June 19, 2024)
- “Counting” on Dad! (June 12, 2024)
- Line up! 📈 (June 5, 2024)
- May 2024 Bonus Questions
- Suspenseful! A CLEFhanger! (May 29, 2024)
- Month Ado About Puns (May 22, 2024)
- Don’t get mad; get GAAD (May 15, 2024)
- Mother, may I? (May 8, 2024)
- Tactile Skills Matrix (May 1, 2024)
- We’ve got good chemistry! (UEB Math/Science)
- And other “fun” activities (April 17, 2024)
- Million Manipulatives in Your Pocket (April 10, 2024)
- Positively Amazing Reliable Aid (April 3, 2024)
- Spring Fling (March 27, 2024)
- Getting Hot in Here (March 20, 2024)
- Key Largo, Montego. Baby, why don’t we go? (March 13, 2024)
- Singing in the Rain … Wait … Singing in the BRAILLE! (March 6, 2024)
- February 2024 Bonus Questions
- SuperDUPER! (February 28, 2024)
- Don’t Be a Square, Daddy-O (February 21, 2024)
- Will you brailley be mine? 💝 (February 14, 2024)
- What Is New? (February 7, 2024)
- January 2024 Bonus Questions
- Draggin’? Try 🐉! (January 31, 2024)
- Spanish Symbol Spectacular (January 24, 2024)
- My Name is What? (January 17, 2024)
- Bus Boycott Math (January 10, 2024)
- Putting on the Pressure (January 3, 2024)
2023
- December 2023 Bonus Questions
- On NYE … They always drop the ball! (December 27, 2023)
- Jolly Ol’ Strong Groupsign II (December 20, 2023)
- The Final Frontier (December 13, 2023)
- World Braille Day is Coming! (December 6, 2023)
- November 2023 Bonus Question
- Slide on Over (November 29, 2023)
- 📖 Titles and Typeforms (November 22, 2023)
- A Day for Kids (November 15, 2023)
- Is this appropriate? (November 8, 2023)
- Double Trouble (November 1, 2023)
- October 2023 Bonus Questions
- Stay Positive! ➕ (October 25, 2023)
- What happened in 1829?! (October 18, 2023)
- Spooky Pasta Pun (October 11, 2023)
- Questions for Annual Meeting 2023
- How Do You Hashtag? (October 4, 2023)
- Only a Fraction of People Will Find This Funny (September 27, 2023)
- The KEY to Success Is … (September 20, 2023)
- FALLing for Puns (September 13, 2023)
- Right-Now Tactile Graphics (September 6, 2023)
- August 2023 Bonus Questions
- Side Style (August 30, 2023)
- Not The Matrix (August 23, 2023)
- Does this add up? (August 16, 2023)
- Straight, No Arrow (August 9, 2023)
- It Was the Colonel in the Library! (August 2, 2023)
- July 2023 Bonus Questions
- Cranmer 🧮 Counting (July 26, 2023)
- Step back, and I will act. (July 19, 2023)
- Summer Pun (July 12, 2023)
- An easy 1 (July 5, 2023)
- June 2023 Bonus Questions
- Around the Sun (June 28, 2023)
- Not Equal Symbol (June 21, 2023)
- I am your father. (June 14, 2023)
- Picture Perfect 🖼 (June 7, 2023)
- May 2023 Bonus Questions
- Sunny Singing 🎤🌞 (May 31, 2023)
- Penny for Your Thoughts (May 24, 2023)
- Sandwich(?) Toppings 🌭 (May 17, 2023)
- Teachers = Terrific (May 10, 2023)
- Short Joke (May 3, 2023)
- April 2023 Bonus Questions
- We Can Do It 🤝 Together (April 26, 2023)
- 🌏 Day Theme (April 19, 2023)
- “Goodbye” to an amigo (April 12, 2023)
- Little Lost Math Statement (April 5, 2023)
- March 2023 Bonus Questions
- Snacks Right Meow! (March 29, 2023)
- Use your braille abili-BEE! 😏🐝 (March 22, 2023)
- Hello to an amigo 👋 (March 15, 2023)
- Excellent Coaching (March 8, 2023)
- What is for Breakfast? (March 1, 2023)
- February 2023 Bonus Questions
- Words Built Upon Rocks (February 22, 2023)
- Dreams of Birds (February 15, 2023)
- 💘 Valentine’s Dots (February 8, 2023)
- Gimme a Piece of That (Nemeth Code & UEB) (February 1, 2023)
- January 2023 Bonus Questions
- Who said that?! (January 25, 2023)
- Happy New Year! 🌑 (January 18, 2023)
- Can it be simpler? (January 11, 2023)
- *First* of the Year (January 4, 2023)