A Louisville-developed tablet is helping visually impaired users read Braille and graphics simultaneously — and it’s gaining ...

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 ...

Braille Challenge is a large organization, with contests in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom in an effort to promote the importance of braille literacy.

A Boston woman, who is deaf-blind, was denied services, benefits and even a shot at the Marines before she found her footing ...

Oregon’s version of Imagination Library, an initiative launched by superstar Dolly Parton to send a free book each month to babies and preschoolers, recently mailed its 4 millionth book to an Oregon ...

Throughout Brevard, organizations and individuals are encouraging literacy during National Reading Month and beyond.

Javed Ahmad Tak began to see the world in a different light after becoming paralysed from the waist down in 1997. He started ...

Life-saving treatments for children with orphan illnesses often move slowly, if at all, through the federal approval process.

Professor Nilanjana Sen has touched many milestones in academia, from topping university to commanding sighted students, and ...

Idaho's only school for deaf and blind students can't open a new dorm or replace its Braille machine after lawmakers denied part of its funding request.

The China Braille Library, in collaboration with over 400 libraries nationwide, promotes reading among the country's 17 million visually impaired individuals. It lifts interest in reading through ...

Libraries across Hobsons Bay are now even more accessible after Auslan and braille kits were added to the borrowing ...