More than a half of a million kids in the United States are visually impaired. That's according to a survey done by American Community Survey for the American Foundation for the Blind. Teaching kids ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rachel Heuser, left, a retired teacher of the blind, gives a festive welcome to Lynn Wu at her home in Laguna Niguel. Wu is there ...

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 ...

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 ...

This steep decline in tactile literacy is what spurred the Braille Institute, an L.A.-based nonprofit serving blind and low-vision people, to launch its Braille Challenge in 2000. "Up until the ...

LOS ANGELES – The challenger sat alone at a square folding table in the center of her teacher’s immaculate living room, stockinged feet whispering against the plush, white carpet, hands poised over a ...