Skylar Aguirre loves books and looks forward to reading more of them – but not the typical way most kids read. “I was blind ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 20—Perkins ninth-grader Piper Conner arranged her Braille paper and "Brailler" on the table, waiting for the competition to ...

The NYC Regional Braille Challenge stands as an unparallelled academic competition, exclusively designed for students who are blind or visually impaired. Spanning across the U.S., Canada, and the ...

“She started (learning Braille) in October of 2016,” Hackman said. “She was in first grade, but had to start with the kindergarten-level material, and she finished that in about 2½ months. Then we ...

Lucia, a fifth-grader in the Pittsburgh area, reads braille during the annual Regional Braille Challenge at the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Local blind ...

More than a half of a million kids in the United States are visually impaired. That's according to a survey done by American Community Survey for the American Foundation for the Blind. Teaching kids ...

The Ohio Regional Braille Challenge was held in Stark County for the first time. The competition tests students on fundamental braille literacy skills. The Stark County Educational Service Center ...

Jyoti Rai sat slightly hunched over a table Wednesday at Red River High School, fingers clutching a small stylus as she rapidly nicked a piece of paper clasped between two plastic slates. After a few ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Seven-year-old Emerson Thom, a first-grade student at Woodvale Elementary School is heading to Los Angeles California to compete in the 2025 Braille Challenge. Jessica Turner, ...