Blind and low-vision students at the University of Minnesota have the same concerns as students without disabilities in navigating their academic and social lives in addition to the unique ...

Perkins School for the Blind is launching a virtual academy to share, with educators located anywhere, techniques for teaching students with rare disabilities. Perkins Academy will kick off this ...

Academic publishing company Wiley recently added interactive visualization tools to its college chemistry courseware to make the subject more accessible to vision-impaired students. According to a ...

First developed in 1983, the Blindness and Low Vision Studies (BLVS) Department offers four master’s degrees and certificate programs in Low Vision Rehabilitation (LVR), Orientation and Mobility (O&M) ...

Attendees at the Low Vision Matters conference gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, in early September to hear UAB’s Beth Barstow, PhD, OTR/L, SCLV, and Jason Vice, PhD, OTR/L, SCLV, speak about ...

The saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words", and that couldn't have been truer for a group of students from the Ohio School for the Blind. Friday, about a dozen students were given ...

LAWRENCE — The next time you feel you can’t do something, 13-year-old Dasha Arias wants you to think of her. At age 3 and new to the United States she started preschool in Lawrence as a low-vision ...

A multi-university research team, including the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has developed A11yShape, ...

Fourteen blind and low-vision students gained hands-on work experience Wednesday as baristas and screen printers during the YES 1 summer camp at the Washington State School for the Blind. The two-week ...