In one of the newest Lego sets under development, the bumps that hold the toys together have a second purpose: They also help children learn Braille. The series of dots on each brick represents a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learning braille is a skill that, like most, is best learned at an early age by those who need it. But toddlers with vision impairment often have few or no options to do so, leaving them behind their ...

The challenger sat alone at a square folding table in the center of her teacher’s immaculate living room, stockinged feet whispering against the plush, white carpet, hands poised over a blue Perkins ...

Charlie Bethay, a student at Shawnee Mission East, competed at the national finals of the Braille Challenge for the 10th time this year. Courtesy photo Four of the 52 national qualifiers to the ...

It’s a program offered at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, giving those who are incarcerated purpose to their day. “I’ve seen a lot of hope restored, and a lot of confidence come back,” said ...

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