SOUJOY Wood Braille Alphabet Board, 0.4'' Thickened Braille Fingerboard with 2mm Carved Raised Dots, Letters & Numbers, Suitable for Blind Visually Impaired

I've been looking for something that would teach braille that isn't just black dots (that aren't raised) on paper. I have pretty bad eyesight, that is very correctable with glasses n' contacts, but I have this slight thought that hits me every so often, that perhaps as I get older, my eyesight might get worse and I won't be able to read. So I looked for braille learning things and really have only found braille stuff for people who can see, so they just use flat black circles.This popped up and I grabbed it. It feels very sturdy, the dots seem bigger than I remember for regular braille stuff, but this is for the initial learning, so I imagine that you get to smaller dots after you learn the feel of the bigger ones. Overall it seems well made and I can easily feel the dots. I just need to look up how to use my fingers correctly to feel them.

This board is really pretty simple in scope: it's a piece of plywood that has been etched with a laser engraver, to remove some material on the top and leave the letters and dots slightly raised above the surface. The height difference is REALLY low, so you do need to practice feeling the dots at all--they are subtle. However, they're also oversized, and if you're patient, you can learn to identify what you're feeling. Real Braille is often way lower profile and uses much smaller dots, so this is a good step toward learning to feel those more challenging bumps. It's a solid piece and would hold up in a nursery, but it looks professional enough that an older adult (using it to prepare for a gradual loss of eyesight) can use it without feeling childish. Nice tool!