Twelve educators from across the Midwest are gathering for six weeks this summer to learn how to better work with students who are blind or visually impaired. Springfield drivers may see these ...

Examination of the travel behaviors of blind pedestrians traditionally relied on subjective data supplied by research participants in the form of travel diaries or surveys. The proposed study builds ...

Research suggests that demand for orientation and mobility specialists will increase as more adults experience age-related vision impairments such as cataracts and macular degeneration. Amy Parker is ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Students from the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired are learning to navigate the busy streets of downtown Baton Rouge as part of their orientation and mobility ...

Imagine living in fear every time you have to cross a busy street. This is an everyday reality for thousands of visually impaired pedestrians around the world who have not received highly specialist ...

To remotely teach her 5-year-old blind student how to navigate a new school this summer, Jennifer Freeman, an orientation and mobility in Escondido County, Calif., had to get creative. She made a ...

The smell of fried potatoes and grilled meat wafts through the air, mingling with laughter and chatter from various visitors outside downtown Lufkin while the long cane moves side to side, actively ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Through small steps, 35 people who are legally blind learned to navigate their world through Guide Dogs of Hawaii’s first mass training session. The non-profit’s executive ...