The overwhelming majority of vision-impaired children attend regular public schools, rather than specialty schools for the blind, and few have teachers who are trained to understand differences ...

Since introduced more than 200 years ago, there have been many misperceptions about Braille, including it can take years to learn and is exclusively a language for the blind. In fact, neither is true.

Janelle Ruby sorts through braille lessons she has completed on Monday, July 9, in her home in West Valley. Ruby is a special education paraeducator at West Valley School and is learning braille to ...

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 ...

The week before Christmas is Santa’s busiest time of year. And as he prepares to circle the globe on his annual gift-giving trip, he relies on some trusty helpers. One of Santa’s special helpers is ...

When Amit Patel lost his sight because of an illness a decade ago—early in his career as a trauma doctor at an emergency room in the U.K.—he struggled to learn Braille with traditional tools. He ...

Two Cornell students have created BrailleWear, a smart glove that aims to improve accessibility and increase braille literacy rates among the visually impaired. BrailleWear was co-founded by ...

Priestley Smith School in Birmingham has developed it's own methods of teaching braille which is now delivered in schools ...

Whether you want to learn Braille or already know it and would finally like a piece of mobile technology that allows you to read the time and messages on a device smaller than sandwich slabs, Dot Inc.