A recent editorial in the New York Times discusses the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act and how important it is for parents and children with disabilities so they can save money for their future.
Talkitt translates unintelligible speech from any language into understandable speech through smart phones, tablets or computers. Works for people with speech disorders or diseases or syndromes that affect speech.
An Ohio mom has created a lending library of adapted games for children of all abilities, from those with developmental delays to those with significant disabilities.
My Retina Tracker is a resource from the Foundation Fighting Blindness that lets individuals manage their information around their retina disease, while researchers can curate the information to further treatment of those diseases.
Bookshare, the free program that offers printed material in an accessible format to those who are unable to easily access printed material, is offering a free parent forum, allowing parents to connect and share ideas about Bookshare.
Researchers are developing an oral medicine that improves visual ability in patients with LCA from the RPE65 or LRAT genes. This is very exciting news!
Researchers have figured out how to use adult stem cells to grow corneas in the lab. These can be used to treat a host of eye illnesses and injuries.
Researchers have found a way to deliver glaucoma medicine via contact lenses, making it easier for users to continue treatment for their disease.
An eye doctor in Kenya has invented a way to use smartphones to diagnose and treat blindness by bringing the technology to the patient.
A revolutionary 3-D printing system makes music easier to read for blind musicians. Invented by a blind South Korean musician as part of her doctoral dissertation, it makes music accessible to musicians at all levels.
Google is creating a self-driving car that can go 25 mph and carry two people. It’s currently in prototype testing but they hope to have it on the road this year! Who wants to be a volunteer driver?
Watch this webcast about building relationships between parents and the professionals who work with their children who are blind or visually impaired, with or without additional disabilities.
Being blind means giving up a lot of independence; this new technology from Verizon gives blind people real-time information about their environment, including colors, textures, nav cues, and more, using smartphone technology. And it’s portable!
With the World Cup happening, soccer fever is spreading. And if you think there’s no place out on the soccer pitch for a person who is blind, think again, because Brazil has a whole team made up of soccer players with vision impairment!
Scientists are using stem cells to create a retina in a petri dish. It behaves exactly as an actual retina does, allowing for full experimentation and leading hopefully to restoring vision for people with retinal disease.
