All his life, Robert Englebretson has been a bookworm. He was a good kid. But he often bent the rules for this early love. "One of the cool things about braille is that you could sneak a book under ...
LANSING, Mich. ( WLNS) January has been proclaimed as Braille Literacy Month by Governor Gretchen Whitmer to recognize the impact this reading system has on individuals who are blind or visually ...
The overwhelming majority of vision-impaired children attend regular public schools, rather than specialty schools for the blind, and few have teachers who are trained to understand differences ...
The week before Christmas is Santa’s busiest time of year. And as he prepares to circle the globe on his annual gift-giving trip, he relies on some trusty helpers. One of Santa’s special helpers is ...
In its heyday, Volunteer Braille Services had as many as 50 volunteer "Braillers" to transcribe a variety of written materials — from books and owner's manuals to church hymnals — into Braille. Now ...
Few inventors have had such a positive effect on so many lives as Louis Braille, the remarkable educator, innovator and advocate for the blind. Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in ...
For many people around the world, braille is their primary language for reading books and articles, and digital braille readers are an important part of that. The newest and fanciest yet is the ...
Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...
When the local nonprofit Blind Industries & Services of Maryland reached out to Johns Hopkins University's mechanical engineering program last year, they asked for one thing: a printer that adds ...