Smart phones and tablets have many accessibility features but are still basically smooth surfaces. Two new technologies try to change this by making tablets with tactile output or phones with audio feedback.
Accessible Braille Smart Phones Read More »
Watch a video about beep baseball and the Boston team, the Renegades. The video explains how beep baseball works and follows a couple blind players through their day.
Make baseball accessible with Beep Baseball! Read More »
WonderBaby.org has been chosen by the Parents’ Choice Foundation for an Approved seal in their Website category. The Foundation awards the Approved seal to websites that help children enjoy developing physical, emotional, social or academic skills.
WonderBaby.org Earns Parents’ Choice Foundation Seal of Approval Read More »
The newest webcast from Perkins features Luisa Mayer, Ph.D., an internationally known specialist in visual field/functional vision testing.
Visual Fields, Field Loss and Functional Vision Testing Read More »
Boston Children’s Hospital is running a pilot program with inpatient care using a new app they’ve developed to help organize and facilitate communication between a patient’s family and their doctors.
Children’s Hospital Uses iPads to Enhance Patient’s Experience Read More »
Beth Jordan from Helen Keller National Center’s Kansas office shares her insights into preparing for transition to adult services for blind students.
Helping Your Blind Child Transition to Adult Services Read More »
What does the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine have to do with diseases of the retina? Maybe nothing, at first, but Dr Yamanaka’s work with stem cells (specifically induced pluripotent stem cells) may have wide-reaching benefits for researchers working on curing degenerative retinal diseases.
Stem Cells, the Nobel Prize and Future Research Read More »
Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) announces the successful implantation of a bionic eye. BVA attached the device, which contains 24 electrodes that stimulate the retina’s nerve cells, to a retina.
Bionic Vision Australia Working on Bionic Eye Implants Read More »
The idea behind the National Deafblind Equipment Distribution Program (NDBEDP) is that people with combined hearing and vision loss should have access to modern telecommunication tools (and the training necessary to use them) so that they can interact, communicate, use the internet and contribute more to their community.
National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program Read More »
A new study restores normal vision in mice with diseased retinas using a new type of retinal prosthetic which relies on the use of the retina’s code that communicates with the brain.
Retinal Prosthetic Creates “Normal Vision” in Blind Mice Read More »
American Printing House for the Blind (APH) and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library have teamed up to provide free audio and braille books to preschoolers with visual impairments!
APH Teams Up with Dolly Parton to Offer Free Braille Books for Preschoolers Read More »
Sonja Biggs is looking for mothers of blind children to participate in a study on school skills. Sonja would like to see how mothers prepare their blind children for school.
Calling All Moms of Blind Kids! Read More »
EyeMusic is a sensory substitution device that turns visual data into music so that blind users can hear what’s around them. Users of EyeMusic wear glasses with a small video camera mounted on the frame. The camera scans the images in front of the user then transmit music back through an ear piece.
EyeMusic: Seeing with Sound Read More »
A new study shows that parents of children with disabilities learn to adjust over time and show little difference in well being, both physically and emotionally, from parents of typically developing children.
A Message for Parents of Special Needs Kids: Don’t Worry, Everything Will be OK Read More »
The United Healthcare Children’s Foundation is seeking grant applications from families in need of financial assistance to help pay for their child’s health care treatments, services or equipment not covered by their health insurance plan. Find out if you’re eligible and how to apply!
Medical Grants to Cover Health Care Treatments Read More »
