AFP News Agency
CLEAN : For Ethiopian rights advocate not seeing is no obstacle
Disability activist Yetnebersh Nigussie pushed for her university to provide braille textbooks for blind students like herself and is now a full time fighter for the rights and opportunities of Ethiopia's millions of disabled people
Curated Video
A three-year pilot program called iCanConnect is helping low-income deaf-blind individuals get access to the latest telecommunications technology. (April 8)
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SOUNDBITE: ADRIANA ANTOCI/Program Participant: **THROUGH SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR**
"It was really a depressing situation for myself. So I went back to home. And I lost everything. I felt...
Curated Video
RR7928B YUGOSLAVIA: DEALING WITH BLINDNESS
This recent report from Yugoslavia contains no major
breakthroughs, no revolutionary new treatments. But
it does provide a progress report on how one country
is rejecting the idea that blind people should be
institutionalised and...
Curated Video
Braille Literacy Facing Record Low Turns to Tech
IT WAS ONCE THE ONLY PATH TO LITERACY FOR BLIND PEOPLE, BUT NOW, PRINTED BRAILLE IS FACING A STEEP DECLINE BECAUSE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY.
SOUNDBITE (English) Technology specialist, Braille & Talking Book Library: "It is my...
Curated Video
Blind children in North Korea learn computer skills
Blind children in North Korea have been learning how to use computers, thanks to a pioneering project led by a young German living in Pyongyang, who is himself deaf and mute.
Special paper and equipment for printing Braille, donated from...
Bloomberg
Intel Invests in Young Inventors Braille Printer Project
Dec. 22 -- Braigo Labs Founder and CEO Shubham Banerjee discusses building Braille printers from Legos. He speaks on Bloomberg West. (Source: Bloomberg)
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Blind children defy bad karma to play in Thai orchestra
Using their own form of braille the children of Thailands first blind orchestra fill the concert hall with music as well as hope of a better future in a country where provision for the disabled has been hampered by the belief they are...
Curated Video
New gadget promises to revolutionise the way blind people 'read'
VNR - National Federation For the Blind - Non AP Television News material
Dallas, Texas - 16 May, 2006
1. Product demonstration area at convention of blind people
2. Two men listening to new product
3. Woman being introduced to...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Blind Malaysian Muslims study Quran using Braille
A small community of blind students in Malaysia is attempting to learn the entire Quran a task that requires them to read each sheet of the holy text up to 40 times and memorise close to two pages a day
Hearst Metrotone News
Blind school children work at their desks and read Braille text books.
Blind school children work at their desks and read Braille text books.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Blind children defy bad karma to play in Thai orchestra
CLEAN : Blind children defy bad karma to play in Thai orchestra
Curated Video
DV Braille Lips
HEADLINE:Blind Disabled Man Reads Braille With Tongue
CAPTION: A blind and disabled man in Vietnam has taught himself to read
Braille with his lips. (Sept. 26)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
Thirty-four-year-old Tran Minh Duc (trahn mihn...
Hearst Metrotone News
An adult helps a blind child learn to read braille.
An adult helps a blind child learn to read braille.
Curated Video
More than 2.4 tons of cocaine seized in Peru
Peruvian authorities seized more than 2.4 tons of cocaine through various special operations in the last 10 days, officials in Lima said Wednesday. From the various loads seized, officials said 474 kilograms of cocaine originated from...
Curated Video
More than 2.4 tons of cocaine seized in Peru
Peruvian authorities seized more than 2.4 tons of cocaine through various special operations in the last 10 days, officials in Lima said Wednesday. From the various loads seized, officials said 474 kilograms of cocaine originated from...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : The blind in Chile can now see art thanks to street murals
The blind in Chile are now able to enjoy art alongside their sighted counterparts thanks to street murals in capital Santiago which are paired with relief plaques bearing the image and braille of the artwork letting blind people see and...
Sky News
King Charles visits Hereford Royal College for the blind
CLEAN: Exterior shots of King Charles visiting Hereford Royal Collage for the blind and speaking with staff and students on the 12th December 2022 in Hereford, England
TED-Ed
How Braille Was Invented
As part of its Moment of Vision series, TEDEd provides a brief video that explains how the braille language system was first developed to send coded messages during wartime.
Teaching Channel
Florida School for the Deaf and Blind
Learn from teachers at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind on ways to reach students of different learning styles and ability levels, as well as how to accommodate learners with special needs in a general education classroom setting.
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: What Is Communication?
Exploring our world is fun! Abby Brown, KIDS Clubhouse Adventures co-host, loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, kids learn about a variety of verbal and nonverbal ways to send and receive messages, including...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: What Is Communication?: Iptv Kids Clubhouse
In this video, Abby Brown, IPTV KIDS Clubhouse co-host, loves to help kids have fun while learning! In this segment, kids learn about a variety of verbal and nonverbal ways to send and receive messages, including American Sign Language,...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Touching the Invisible Sky
A book in Braille tries to make images from NASA space telescopes accessible to the visually impaired.