A space camp designed specifically for students with with visual impairments. Read about this week long camp adventure which takes place at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

A biographical overview of the life of Anne Sullivan Macy, devoted teacher of Heller Keller and a pioneer in the education of the visually impaired which earned her the nickname "miracle worker". Learn about her through her own letters,...

A resource guide that is a great help to locating a full array of assistive products and services for persons with blindness or visual impairments.

This activity helps students who are blind or visually impaired to identify the functions of common objects. Alternatively, for other students a blindfold could be used.

This Blind Readers' site provides links to hundreds of resources for students who are blind or vision impaired and their families. They include spoken word resources, information on assistive technologies, speech recognition, Braille...

This Blind Readers' site provides links to hundreds of resources for students who are blind or vision impaired and their families. They include spoken word resources, information on assistive technologies, speech recognition, Braille...

Provides a list of links about color blindness. Split into two categories: living with color blindness, and color blindness tests and simulations.

Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed,...

There is a special writing system for the visually impaired called braille. This activity will show you how to read with your fingers.

Informative site for those who need assistance with computing needs due to low vision or blindness. Many links provided to arrive at a solution!

This resource is for learning about braille. Links are provided to change colors, increase font size, decode braille, learn about braille, discuss some books with others and play games.

Bookshare.org offers both individual subscriptions and accounts for schools or groups a program that allows persons with blindness or visual impairments to download popular books from the Internet. Digital books can then be read with a...

Helpful page serves as a resource of free fonts for both Braille and American Sign Language.

Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to create a message in Braille by gluing beans, or a substitute, onto paper.

Presents comprehensive biographical information on Louis Braille, the founder of a system of reading and writing by raised dots, and Valentin Hauy, the founder of the world's first school for the blind in Paris, France.

Explore the communications system based upon a pattern of raised dots called Braille, and design a method of inquiry that uses the scientific method to compare the effectiveness of reading dot cells against reading raised alphabet...

Software download from the University of North Carolina based on research for "Helping people without sight access and explore spatial information."

ECHOSPEECH is a very high quality speech coder that compresses speech 18.5 to 1. Plugins are provided for both Macs and PCs.