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Addison Burgess gets ready to compete in the "Braille Wars" competition at . - Orlando Sentinel (blog)

Orlando Sentinel (blog)

Addison Burgess gets ready to compete in the "Braille Wars" competition at .
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Sixteen students competed this morning in EURœBraille Wars,EUR a Star Wars-themed competition for the visually impaired. It was one of four Braille reading competitions being held around the state between January and March. Half of the competitors hailed .

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Stem cell treatment for blindness
Stem cell treatments have yielded positive results in patients who lost their vision because of macular degeneration..

Blindness can't slow Arlington's Paul Parravano
The long road of the man moving arm-in-arm with his trainer to workout stations throughout a cavernous Woburn gym began nearly 60 years ago when he was on vacation in Italy with his parents...

Houston Texas 2012 "Eye Ball"
HOUSTON -- The Houston Eye Associates Foundation and Prevent Blindness Texas honor Visionaries Rosanette and Harry Cullen at the Houston "Eye Ball" on February 10, 2012. More than 400 guests ...

Stem cells treat blindness
EMBRYONIC stem cells have been used in humans to treat the most common cause of blindness...

Stem Cells Show Promise As Blindness Treatment In Early Study
Human embryonic stem cells show promise in an early study involving two patients suffering from incurable, progressive forms of blindness. Both experienced marked improvement in their eyesight. read more..

Use of Braille is decreasing, but school still teaches it - AberdeenNews.com

AberdeenNews.com

Use of Braille is decreasing, but school still teaches it
AberdeenNews.com
The number of students learning Braille has declined each decade since the 1950s, when more than 50 percent of the blind learned it, according to a 2009 report from the National Federation of the Blind. The reasons are many, including widespread .
Blind Students Test Their Braille Skills13WMAZ

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Report shows risk of blindness halved over last decade
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...