In a two-month summer course on high-performance computing, promising undergrads compete to create innovative applications. This summer's winner developed a touchscreen Braille writer that stands to ...

Undergraduate student, Adam Duran, made excellent use of his time at Stanford University, where he attended a two-month summer course organized by the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center ...

It wasn't all that long ago that we saw a student turn a tablet into a Braille writer, and now some researchers from Georgia Tech have done the same thing for smaller touchscreens, too. The Yellow ...

Teacher Jennifer Martinez works with Head Start students Arya, left, Baruc and Noah at the Blind Children's Center in East Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) In Saul Valdivia’s preschool ...

To help provide a low-cost communication tool for the blind, undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins University invented a lightweight, portable Braille writing device that needs no electronic components.

Three years ago, Sohan Dharmaraja was a Stanford engineering doctoral candidate in search of his next project when he visited the Stanford Office of Accessible Education, which helps blind and ...

Children who will learn braille start preparing with pre-braille. They may learn to track lines and identify shapes, become familiar with touching braille in books and work on finger strengthening ...