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Blind students, families see the world in a new way
One even arose this season: Amber mentioned that she had not been able to hand out Christmas presents on Christmas since her..

Rockwired.Com Announces The Nominees For It's 2012 Rockwired Radio Music Awards
Email: publicity@rockwired.com Website: Rockwired.com has just announced the nominees for its 2012 Rockwired Radio Music Awards season...

Study shows 50% reduction in blindness and severe visual loss in Denmark
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most frequent cause of blindness in the Western World. A report from the University of Copenhagen and Glostrup Hospital in Denmark published today shows the number of new cases of blindness and severe visual loss in Denmark has been halved during the last ten years...

Stem cells show promise in treating blindness
A medical breakthrough was reported Monday in the journal The Lancet wherein the results of a therapy using human embryonic stem cells in two legally blind patients was described...

Seeing their lives change before your eyes
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Macular Damaged Vision Improved with Stem Cells
Research using stem cells continues to be a controversial issue. But controversial or not, stem cell therapy use continues and new developments using the therapy to reverse vision loss are reported regularly...

An Event Apart: Hacking Users Brains
In her Hacking Your Users' Brains talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2012 Aviva Rosenstein outlined how visual perception and customer research can help manage user expectations in your software applications...

Biomedical briefing
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences will bring a number of the agency's basic and applied initiatives under one roof, including the Clinical and Translational Science Awards, the Cures Acceleration Network, the Office of Rare Diseases Research and parts of the Molecular Libraries Program...

In J&K, officials are blind to reason
Except for a few special schools where a handful of children with..

Dog Nail Trimming - Tips for Clipping a Frightened Pet's Nails
Dogs can get extremely frightened by nail clippers. In fact, many pets get very dramatic during the nail trimming process, with lots of yelping, whining and sometimes, screaming! The vocalizations can be the result of pain, but more often, they're the result of fear and nervous anticipation of pain...

Bowl for Braille books - Hometownlife.com

Bowl for Braille books
Hometownlife.com
WMGC's Chris Edmonds will be the emcee at Seedlings' 25th annual Bowling for Braille Books Saturday, March 25, at Plaza Lanes in Plymouth. The event, presented by Ameriprise Financial, celebrates Seedlings' 25th anniversary. Registration starts at noon .

Disabled children with limited income may qualify for SSI
Q. A good friend's 10 year-old son, healthy at birth, has brain damage, is in a wheelchair, and needs 24/7 care...

New devices distributed to help special needs pupils - gulfnews.com

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New devices distributed to help special needs pupils
gulfnews.com
Abu Dhabi: When Taleb Al Murri received his Braille Sense Plus 32 note taker last year, he was thrilled, thanks to the Abu Dhabi Education Council's (Adec) scheme to help mainstream school pupils with special needs. This year the scheme has been .

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Burger chain courts blind diners with sesame seed Braille on buns - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

Burger chain courts blind diners with sesame seed Braille on buns
Los Angeles Times
By Tiffany Hsu In South Africa, restaurant chain Wimpy is welcoming blind customers -- by serving them burgers with words in Braille spelled out on their buns with sesame seeds. In a viral YouTube video promoting its in-store Braille menus, .
Braille Burger Buns, Or, How to Tap the Blind Social MediaLA Weekly (blog)
Wimpy burgers makes braille bunsBaltimore Sun
Wimpy South Africa reaches out to visually impaired with "Braille Burger"GlobalPost (blog)
Bangstyle -UPI.com -National Post (blog)
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