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 ...

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 ...

In a world where the visually-impaired are increasingly relying on digital devices, only 10 percent of blind children are being taught Braille, meaning 9 out of 10 blind children cannot read. To help ...

BILLUND, Denmark — 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 ...

MILWAUKEE -- Students in Milwaukee are learning how to read Braille or understand sign language, even though they're not deaf or blind. And the learning starts before they're even in first grade!

Children with visual impairments will soon have a new, creative way to learn Braille. The LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced yesterday at a conference in Paris that the company would be ...

LOS ANGELES - LEGO has created an interactive new way to help blind and visually impaired children learn how to read Braille. The project is called LEGO Braille Bricks, which are customized LEGO ...

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 ...

SAN BERNARDINO >> For almost 300 years, Braille has been the alphabet used by blind people around the world, giving them literacy and self-determination. But technology, which has empowered people ...

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 ...

Children with visual impairments will soon have a new, creative way to learn Braille. The LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced yesterday at a conference in Paris that the company would be ...