Fewer than half of legally blind Americans read Braille. "When my son was born, he was the first blind person I’d ever met," Emily Coleman told "Good Morning America." Coleman, 40, now works as a ...

For nearly 200 years, braille has been vital in aiding the blind and visually impaired engage with the world. Learning braille is fundamental in helping legally blind children reach literacy levels so ...

Founder of Electronic Brailler develops virtual learning tool. Braille tool can help connect students and teachers. Since the '70s, braille education for the blind has been on the steady decline. With ...

BOSTON — Like many 5-year-olds, Mikaella Bresson is learning to read. So is her mother, who at 32 recently earned graduate degrees in law and public policy. The two are studying Braille: Mikaella ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A West Michigan educator is being honored as a Teacher of the Year by the Braille Institute, an organization located in California. They named April Makley Teacher of the Year ...

GOODING • Decades ago, Jan Zollinger jumped at the opportunity to help a blind classmate at Brigham Young University. She didn’t know that act of volunteerism would someday lead to a career. For a ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Braille Institute has named Melinda Demaris as its 2022 “Teacher of the Year” for excellence in braille instruction. The award is part of Braille Institute’s annual ...

RUSSELLVILLE (KATV) — In Pam Pilgram-Smith's kindergarten class at Crawford Elementary, daily lessons go beyond the basics. That's because she has a special student this year...a very smart and ...

At $4,000 each, Braille displays are much too expensive to be of any use to the nearly 8 million visually impaired people living in India. But thanks to a group of clever computer science students ...

Ginger Shepardson stood quietly on the sidewalk in Palmer a couple of weeks ago, her white cane in one hand and her teacher standing nearby. She listened for the sound of car engines. She tried to ...