Job Fair for Visually Impaired Highlights Homogeneity of Options in Boston Job Market
...amenable to adaptive technologies. Dina Rosenbaum, the chief program officer for the Carroll Center, said the organizers aim for variety when creating the fair’s lineup. She emphasized that “blindness doesn’t...
Researchers predict greater need for low vision services
...least 45 years old) in 2017, the prevalence of low vision and blindness is estimated to be 3,894,406, with a best corrected visual acuity less than 20/40; 1,483,703 individuals with...
Programs for visually impaired students face teacher shortage
...of braille textbooks and tablets loaded with the latest apps designed to help students with partial blindness to see what is on the board. Read more at article source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-blind-teacher-shortage-20171012-story.html...
Action Alert: Tax Reform Increases Burden on Americans who are Blind
...need to simplify this process, it must recognize that there are millions of Americans with unique medical needs and conditions such as blindness. It is often through the culmination of...
Trigger for most common form of vision loss discovered
...blindness. “Almost 200 million people in the world have macular degeneration. If macular degeneration were a country, it would be the eighth most populated nation in the world. That’s how...
THE ETHICAL FUTURE OF BIONIC VISION
...the ethical implications of ‘artificial’ sight? Curing blindness – at least in some of its many guises – with a prosthetic retina, also known as a bionic eye, has occupied...
This Blind Painter Defies Limitations to Create Stunning Works of Art
...of blindness is of a person completely limited in all they do, you’re the one without vision. When John Bramblitt lost his sight, he thought his passion for painting would...
Hair-Sized Stent Offers Hope For Patients Suffering From Glaucoma
A tiny new device could help prevent a leading cause of blindness. The glaucoma implant is the size of a human hair, and was just approved by the Food and...
Happy birthday, Braille: how writing you can touch is still helping blind people to read and learn
Louis Braille, who was born on January 4, 1809, invented a tactile reading and writing system which transformed the lives of countless people with severe vision impairments or blindness. Braille...
Olin College Students Think Outside of the Box with Accessibility
...Design course by to learn about the blindness community and how the Carroll Center services them. These bright young students will take the knowledge they’ve learned here to design...
