Tag: blind

Read her Life Story below: Edythe Piccione is a young at heart senior citizen and a professional artist. Edythe has been painting for 28 years, and five years ago she was diagnosed with Macular Degeneration. Edythe was worried she would not be able to paint the same way again. Piccione read about Dr. Scott Hearing’s […]

                  Derek Fincham is West Virginia’s Mountaineer mascot and an inspiration to many. You would never know by looking at him but he suffers from a low vision impairment. Thanks to the JORDY, he can read with ease. See how you too can benfit from low vision assistive technology.

Please enjoy Enhanced Vision’s first ever 30 second commercial. The commerical has been aired in Florida and Northern California. Enhanced Vision is very excited to air the commerical in many more areas in the country as well in the near future, stay tuned!

Marla Palmer worries that science teachers give up on her two blind children too easily. That’s one reason why the president of the Utah Parents of Blind Children helped to organize Saturday’s “Science Without Sight” camp for 26 visually impaired Utah students from fourth through 12th grades. Campers got the chance to handle alligators and […]

This is a collection of photographs taken by blind and partially sighted visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum during a two day course. The photographer Eric Richmond led the course and …. Source for complete article: http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/past_events/people_with_disabilities/photocourse_blind/index.html

Computer engineers developed a new computer game, called AudiOdyssey, for visually impaired persons. The game primarily focuses on sounds and rhythms, which visually impaired and sighted players can both enjoy… Source for complete article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1111-video_games_for_the_visually_impaired.htm

No doubt finding stereo equipment for the visually impaired is limited and hard to find. However, there is at least one product that is now devoted to the blind or even the partially blind. It is a stereo that uses an interface that reacts to the user, while keeping… Source for complete article: http://www.cybertheater.com/stereo-for-visually-impaired/

Legally blind, Lucy McAdams vision is lost but she is still able to see the bright spots of life. Through her self-painted greeting cards, she escaped her personal darkness and now hopes that her accomplishments can serve as an example to others with disabilities to not give up. When McAdams first lost all her center […]