In the 1920s, the famous Armenian composer, the first typhlo teacher, visually impaired Nikoghayos Tigranyan adapted the Braille system to the Armenian alphabet and began to teach it to blind children. The young people of that generation used the Braille system to copy works of famous writers, as well as school textbooks. The opportunities of the Association of the Blind of Armenia, founded in 1930, in the 1950s only permitted organized printing of Braille literature and schoolbooks. In1956 the first Braille book in the Armenian language was published. After organizing the printing of the first Braille book, barely 2 years had passed, when in July 1958, the first issue of the Armenian Association of the Blind magazine was published, which is still being published today. The magazine became a reliable source of fresh and reliable information for those who could not see it.
In 1963, the Publishing House of the Association of the Blind of Armenia was founded with its recording studio, whose activities are aimed at providing educational and cultural services for the visually impaired.
In 1965, the recording studio of the publishing house released the first "Talking" book, which was one of the genius works of the Armenian people, the heroic epic "Sasna Tserer". The "Talking" book became an integral part of the daily life of the blind and partially sighted, one of the most pleasant and useful activities, and an irreplaceable way of using literature for people who lost their sight at a late age.
Thus, in the Publishing House of the Armenia Association of the Blind, the basic services of educational and cultural services for the visually impaired are carried out: the printing of art books, school textbooks and magazines, the preparation of Braille notebooks and the recording of "Talking" books. They are provided to the visually impaired through our organization's libraries.