WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers are developing software in a “haptic device” that could give people with visual impairments the ability to identify scientific images on a computer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Braille Institute offers online workshops and classes. People living with diminished vision often encounter challenges each day ...

A room used for sleep and audio studies at the Unit for Visually Impaired People. On a hill overlooking a small airport whose runway stretches into the Ligurian Sea sits the Unit for Visually Impaired ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Wednesday, 25 children with severe visual impairment were given high-tech vision aids and taught how to use them from the non-profit “Sight Savers America.” Some of the devices ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KUTV) — New technology is helping those with visual impairments -- like Ashton Dunford -- gain independence. When Ashton was born his family learned he had septo-optic dysplasia.

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Sight Savers America, a national nonprofit, provided high-tech vision aids to Bay County residents with severe visual impairment. The devices, funded by grants, cost between $1,100 and $3,800 and are ...

Nyla Wallace has coped with vision challenges for most of her 16 years, but was only recently diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which causes an individual’s sight to deteriorate over time and has ...

CONCORD, N.C. — A dozen children living with severe visual impairments from Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, and Stanly counties were gifted life-changing technology thanks to Sight Savers America. MORE: ...

Affordability and limited resources due to the cost of assistive devices, technology, or other learning aids, make it hard for families to get vision care for their children according to a medical ...