LEGO is testing a redesigned version of the iconic childhood toy that is meant to help blind or visually impaired children learn braille in an engaging way. It's a big mission, given that only 10% of ...

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 ...

A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed. A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For the 20th consecutive year, the Iowa Library for the Blind hosted the annual Braille Challenge. The one ...

A boy with short brown hair runs his left hand over a set of colorful Braille Bricks attached to a square panel. Source: LEGO Foundation LEGO is rolling out a new toy to increase literacy in blind and ...

A new effort is underway to help blind and visually impaired children more naturally learn to read Braille, a system based on different configurations of six small, raised dots that blind people read ...

Researchers have developed a fast and accurate flexible tactile optical sensor capable of reading Braille. The technology could enable smart readers that convert Braille to speech or text, helping to ...

Reading is often described as a bridge to knowledge a familiar refrain in campaigns promoting literacy nationwide. And on World Braille Day today, this saying carries even more weight. Yet beyond well ...