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Like 6-year-olds around the world, Madison Logan is learning to read and write. Unlike most children, however, the Quincy girl has vision problems severe enough to make her legally blind. But that is ...

DECATUR - Can a typewriter teach? That depends on the user. Fred Connor, 56, has been taking his typewriter to the Children's Museum of Illinois since 1994, and it's unlike anything most of the ...

Personal electronics are changing life for people with visual impairments. Talking computers and iPhone apps can be a big help, but as Colorado Public Radio’s Megan Verlee found when she visited the ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - Roughly two percent of the population is legally blind or visually impaired. Of those, less than 10 percent can read braille. Braille is a system that is a set of six dots arranged ...

ANAHEIM – Ten-year-old Brennan Lamarra of Fullerton expertly pounded away at a Braille typewriter, transcribing a speech piped in through his headphones. Blind because of a genetic condition, he was ...

Soniya Patel's 3-year-old daughter loves getting a book in the mail each month. It comes from the Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library, which sends free books each month to hundreds of thousands ...