For many people, aging brings significant mobility challenges. This can lead to falls, which may have very serious consequences, such as hip fractures, brain injuries or worse.

I compete in everything that everyone else does.” Such a notion might seem simplistic to most, perhaps easy to accomplish more times than not. But to Dylan LeMaster, the notion means a great deal. In ...

A Durban Blind Culinary School is transforming lives and challenging perceptions, empowering visually impaired chefs to ...

A woman who is visually impaired said she jumped at the chance to learn Braille despite it being like "another language".

The 34-year-old blind tennis champion is on a mission to not only raise awareness but also elevate the sport into ...

LONDON — Naqi Rizvi loves the “absolute freedom” he feels on the tennis court. Winning titles is fun, too. The 34-year-old ...

A wearable navigation assistance system combines visual, audio and haptic senses to assist visually impaired people with ...

The Cleveland Sight Center has helped 4-year-old Emma Morris navigate her vision loss and thrive with her white cane.

Both the Indiana School for the Deaf and School for the Blind and Visually Impaired had their funding slashed by 5 percent in Indiana's recently passed biennium budget. Lawmakers celebrated after ...

The WeWalk Smart Cane 2.0 is changing the way visually impaired users navigate their surroundings by integrating advanced sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) to create a reliable companion ...

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2025, the WeWalk Smart Cane 2.0 emerged as a ground-breaking tool that combines technology with user-centered design to offer independence for those ...

A grand opening on Thursday celebrated a new location for blind and visually impaired individuals in Salinas, providing free and reduced-cost services.The new center is the second location for the ...