Reading with Braille entails some practice and development of skills. Since it uses tactile discernment, a person who uses Braille must learn how to make out and interpret the symbols through touch. The technique that one can use is by applying consistent and equal pressures from the fingers on the dots or symbols. There is no singular and universal technique for every blind person to use because perception varies from one individual to another and it takes long time practice for one to get the hang of it. In most cases a blind person develops his own style and system in encoding the symbols through his own touch.
One research study about the use of Braille conducted by Lowenfield and Abel has revealed that blind persons who learn to read more quickly than others use their index fingers in both left and right hands in “feeling” the codes. Meanwhile there are also those who make use of their left index finger to feel and interpret the codes in the first part of the text while they conclude their reading with the index finger in the right hand. As the blind person culminates reading the first line with the right hand, his left hand automatically goes back to the beginning of each line. This goes on until he is able to finish the whole page.
On the side, there are some problems that rise from the use of both hands in touching the symbols, one of which is the difficulty of some right-handed blind children to use two hands separately since their right hand is dominant. In such case the right hand is used more frequently than the left. Nonetheless, with constant practice, the child will eventually learn how to coordinate his hands. As he continues to read regularly, the child will then come to know how to use both hands simultaneously in reading the dots and symbols.