INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — January is Braille Literacy Month, a time to celebrate the revolutionary touch system that allows individuals who are blind or visually impaired to read, write, and communicate ...

All his life, Robert Englebretson has been a bookworm. He was a good kid. But he often bent the rules for this early love. "One of the cool things about braille is that you could sneak a book under ...

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.

Braille Institute is a nonprofit organization with a bold vision to transform the lives of individuals with vision loss. With more than a century of service, it provides free programs and services ...

For almost 30 years, incarcerated women in Washington have been part of a program that transcribes documents, pamphlets, business cards, textbooks, novels, music, signs and menus — even the Oregon ...

In Kenya, 670,000 visually impaired children and youth could benefit from a new international braille literacy competition aimed at strengthening reading and learning skills for blind and low-vision ...

Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of raised dots for blind people at the mere age of 15. Changing attitudes before ...