Low Vision Blog

Neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita hypothesized in the 1960s that “we see with our brains not our eyes.” Now, a new device trades on that thinking and aims to partially restore the experience of vision for the blind and visually impaired by relying on the nerves on the tongue’s surface to send light signals to the brain.

John Parker was officiating at a Topeka soccer league game in 1981 when his life changed forever. He graduated from Hayden in 1979 and played amateur soccer with the intention of trying out as a goalie for a pro soccer team because he was too short to play basketball, his favorite sport, in elite leagues. […]

Hard labour, as a lifestyle choice, has more to recommend it than I could have guessed. From those first few hours of holding Sophia, my firstborn, curled on my forearm learning to breastfeed, to the most recent round of pre-breakfast Ride a Cockhorse, bouncing two “fine ladies” on my tired knees, I have been a […]

Who turned on the lights? After spending three years in the dark, a 90-year-old great-great-grandfather from Oregon who had been declared legally blind claims he’s suddenly regained much of his sight. “God never treated anybody as good as he’s treated me,” Marty Alvey told the Daily News, three days after his vision inexplicably returned. “When […]

He can’t see very well. She can’t see at all.  Not exactly recruiting poster material, this couple. Nevertheless, Jenine and Kent Stanley of Minerva Park are members in good standing of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. They’re proud to be of service to their country. “I think being part of the U.S. military, it’s an […]

West Texas Lighthouse for the Blind’s motto is “Creating jobs, changing lives,” and it’s a role the San Angelo manufacturing plant takes seriously. The facility has been providing local jobs for the blind and visually impaired since 1963 when it started out making brooms and mops, said Executive Director Dave Wells. Now, roughly 44 employees […]

Paratriathlon continues to break down barriers, with Sunday’s Accenture USA Triathlon Paratriathlon National Championships attracting 53 athletes – the most ever at a paratriathlon event worldwide. Every athlete completing the course under 4 hours qualified for the World Championships in Australia later this season. The sport of partriathlon, formerly referred to as physically challenged triathlon, […]

Louise Brown, 91, has read up to a dozen books a week since 1946 without incurring a single fine for late returns. She borrows mainly large print books because she is partially sighted, and has almost worked her way through her local library’s entire stock. Library staff in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, say the pensioner’s […]

MVP Kenny Johar was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP Award, for his contributions towards Internet Explorer. He has carved out a successful IT career by helping to make technology, more accessible to Australia’s visually impaired. News of his Award, was also picked up by The Australian newspaper and you can read an excerpt of the […]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Blind high schoolers from across the country this week will build an environmentally friendly model home, launch weather balloons or create robots. And some will even drive a car! The University of Maryland is hosting nearly 200 blind or low-vision high school students to try their hand at careers never thought […]