Blind students learning ballroom dancing

Students at a blind college are learning ballroom dancing for the first time, inspired by Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris ...
Inside Higher Ed

Visually, but Not Digitally, Impaired

When officials at the Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired were shopping for a learning management system (LMS) to deliver their online curriculum, they kept running into the same ...
WBUR

Blind and visually impaired students take on summer learning beyond the classroom

Each summer, Perkins School for the Blind hosts programs for children and young adults who are blind and visually impaired. We hear from Courtney Wescott, Perkins' supervisor of outreach for short ...
Mashable

This Braille learning tool could be a game changer for the blind community

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 ...
Purdue University

Technologies offer hands-on science options for blind students during remote learning

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New education technologies are providing more options for blind science students to access laboratory tools and research. Independence Science, a Purdue University-affiliated ...
KGW8

Blind, visually impaired students deal with challenges of distance learning

PORTLAND, Ore. — Families keep plugging away at distance learning and we’ve heard from so many parents who say it hasn’t been easy adapting. For blind or visually impaired students, it has been a ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Learning bonus for blind parents' kids

Fast communicators Infants of blind parents learn to communicate in different ways with their parents and other sighted adults - a skill that enhances their development, a new study shows. The ...