Sirena Carroll recites familiar lines to any fan of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"And Professor Dumbledore got to his feet again," said Carroll, a student at SAAVI Services for the Blind. "The hall fell silent."

Carroll is reading Harry Potter, of course, but it's in Braille.

Each Harry Potter book takes up 10 or more Braille volumes. You'll often find Sirena in SAAVI's Braille library.

"Bring your right hand to meet it," Sirena said, showing how she reads her novels. "That's how I do it."

As a student at SAAVI, Sirena says she unlocked confidence she didn't know she had.

"It allowed me to walk out of SAAVI, knowing that I had a disability, but the disability did not have me," she said.

As a single mom, Sirena admits that before coming to SAAVI, she was anxious about

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