Illiteracy in the blind community is a human rights issue that activists have struggled to address for decades. But a new innovation may provide a solution. The Read Read is a Braille learning device ...

This week, Lego announced plans to unveil customized bricks designed to help children who are blind or visually impaired learn to read Braille. At a time when Braille literacy is declining among ...

CONCORD, N.H. – Inside a prison workshop, several inmates tap away at what look like old typewriters. The devices are actually Perkins Braillers, which are used to write the code relied upon by many ...

A woman who is visually impaired said she jumped at the chance to learn Braille despite it being like "another language". Jenny Stafford said she had hoped to study Braille when she started to lose ...

Charity Boney placed first in the competition for blind students. She now heads to Los Angeles next month for the ...

Imagine if you could pick up Braille just by playing with a ball. A new conceptual toy by recent Pratt grad Danielle Pecora is designed precisely for that. Be-B is a ball that helps kids, blind or not ...

BALTIMORE – Jordan Gilmer has a degenerative condition that eventually will leave him completely blind. But as a child, his teachers did not emphasize Braille, the system of reading in which a series ...

Lego has unveiled a new project aimed at helping blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a “playful and engaging way.” Lego Braille Bricks, a concept originally proposed to the toy ...

Learning changes the brain, but when learning Braille different brain regions strengthen their connections at varied rates and time frames. A new study published in JNeurosci highlights the dynamic ...