Posts In: Education

United States Senate Greenlights Marrakesh Treaty and Implementing Legislation

Jun 28, 2018

The United States Senate today provided its advice and consent for ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. The chamber also approved the treaty's implementing legislation (S.

Science, Cooking, and Summer

Jun 21, 2018

Want to explore science with your blind or sighted child this summer? Consider cooking together. Let's take an example like browning apples. What can we learn?

Disturbing Developments at the Department of Education

May 31, 2018

The National Federation of the Blind is actively engaged in improving access to education for blind students.

Teaching Technology with Tactile Toys

Apr 5, 2018

“This is hard! I don’t understand why I have to go left and right and up and down. My notetaker is so much easier.” I encountered several statements like this the summer I worked as a tech instructor for an independence summer program for blind high school students.

Sensational Diagramming

Mar 13, 2018

The first time I attended college in 2001, a time I lovingly refer to as College 1.0, I was studying computer science. This required a decent level of mathematics, and the ability to gather information from, and create, certain technical diagrams.

Coloring Inside the “Tactile” Lines

Mar 6, 2018

My mom, who was also blind, had been a teacher before I was born. She understood child development and was determined that I would participate in the same activities my sighted peers were doing, even if that meant I did them slightly differently.

Leveraging Technology to Achieve Greater Braille Literacy

Jan 5, 2018

I am fond of a blog post entitled Braille Is Not Dead (So Stop Trying to Kill It). The author articulately and systematically discusses the reasons why Braille remains critically important now and into the future

Braille Opens Doors Previously Closed

Jan 4, 2018

As a child words meant everything to me. I loved to hear people talk and tell stories. One of the things I liked the best was when people read, but exactly what they were doing both perplexed and amazed me.

Braille Literacy: Success for Everyone

Jan 3, 2018

My son Nicholas was born into this world with a bit of difficulty to say the least. The hows and whys are not as important as the journey that Nicholas and my family have been on since April 2006.

Celebrate World Braille Day by Raising Awareness

Jan 2, 2018

Each year, January 4 is celebrated as World Braille Day. It marks the birthday of Louis Braille (1809-1852), the French inventor of the reading and writing code for the blind.