FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoOpinion & Analysis She lost her sight and her hearing but she never lost hope and optimism straitstimes.com - WONG KIM HOH SINGAPORE - Tan Siew Ling has an uncanny ability to remember dates, reeling off with conviction days and months of events that she considers …
PatchBody Language Nonverbal Communication Boards Installed At New HoCo Playground verified_publisherPatch - Kristin Danley-Greiner The boards include braille and are designed to encourage a sense of community and an inclusive, more equitable play area environment. HOWARD COUNTY, …
Sound & VisionThomas Edison How Napoleon Bonaparte Invented the Compact Disc verified_publisherSound & Vision - Ken C. Pohlmann You can admit it. You are intrigued. Of course, it can’t be true. But is it purely nonsensical? Is it a “pigs can fly” kind of declaration? Or is …
South Africa MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED: The Blind SA case: Watershed moment for disability rights in South Africa dailymaverick.co.za - Marcus Low Almost 25 years ago, in December 1996, President Nelson Mandela promulgated South Africa’s progressive and aspirational Constitution. The document …
The GuardianAustralia Lego’s bricks for blind people – in pictures verified_publisherThe Guardian - Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Blind and visually impaired children in Australia had their first opportunity to play with Lego’s braille bricks at Legoland in Melbourne
Los Angeles TimesOrange County (Calif.) Newport Beach’s Lucie Courtois eager to share her ‘Miracle’ story verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Matt SzaboTwenty-year-old Lucie Courtois, who has written her first children’s book, celebrated the fruits of her labor at a signing event Friday afternoon outside of Lido Village Books in Newport Beach Getting...
