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Clever 7 year old boy helps to bring Braille labels to grocery stores starting with Whole Foods Market in Thousand Oaks, CA & Newtonville, MA.
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Researchers continue to search for methods of preventing and treating blindness. A new study in the Journal of Archives of Ophthalmology shows that a single serving of fish per week is associated with a reduced risk of incident early age-related macular degeneration, a disease that is the leading cause of severe vision loss in people older than 60. The macula, a part of the retina that allows central vision, deteriorates in this condition. Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, addressed staff at the Library of Congress today focusing on the need for digital information to be made available to the blind. Braille is NOT a Different Language. Braille is a system of reading and writing in your language without the use of sight. Braille can be produced in many languages, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and many more. Studies have been done showing that only ten percent of blind children are taught Braille. I can tell you this that when my children who are sighted went to school if they were not taught how to read and write, I would have been in the school office demanding that the practice of not teaching reading and writing be changed. |
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