Inspirational Stories

Enhanced Vision, America’s leading manufacturer of magnifying solutions for the visually impaired, announced today it is proud to support the 2009 VISION 5K Run & Walk in Boston, MA this Saturday, June 7th. The unique event is the only 5k championship race in the country where blind athletes compete directly against sighted athletes in a […]

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.

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 […]

Twelve visually impaired artists, a few of whom are totally blind, were recently featured by the University of California at Riverside. The shots they took are inspiring, considering that most won’t know where the camera lens is pointing. For Rosita McKenzie, she said she could be experimental as she can’t see. Her method was to […]

As little Tatyana Larbi, aka Little Miss Muffett, sings about selling her cotton and twigs to the “sister pigs,” you can tell the young girl is enjoying her moment in the limelight, even if she can’t see the audience’s response. The set and costumes are pretty basic. Most were made by parents and volunteers. But […]

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – Team USA won two gold medals and six overall on Saturday at the International German Championships for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Schmalkdalden, Germany.    “Our athletes fought very well overall,” said Coach Scott Moore (Englewood, Colo.), a three-time Paralympic medalist. “This tournament gave them the opportunity….. Source for complete […]

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

Renee Williamson won two gold medals at the Taekwondo Belgium Open Challenge Cup in early March. It was the first time a competitor who had low vision or was blind had competed. Renee is a… Source for complete article: http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=823&news=1069

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 […]