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Tag Archives: visual disabilities
Braille Literacy Month: NIDILRR-Funded Resources for People with Visual Disabilities or Multi-Sensory Loss
In the US, January is Braille Literacy Month, which helps to raise awareness about braille, its history, and how people with visual disabilities use it to read and write. According to the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), braille is … Continue reading
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Tagged blindness, braille, Braille Literacy Month, low vision, sensory disabilities, visual disabilities
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NIDILRR-funded Consumer Products: Visual Disabilities
A visual disability may be defined as a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses, contact lenses, or medication. A visual disability may be due to disease, congenital or … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Assistive Technology for People with Sensory Disabilities – November 2021
This month’s Answered Questions discusses assistive technology for people with sensory disabilities, including mobile health apps, preferences for indoor wayfinding systems; novel technology-based interventions, and more. Continue reading
Invisible or Hidden Disabilities: What are they?
According to the Invisible Disabilities Association, invisible disabilities are physical, mental, or neurological conditions that are not visible from the outside, “yet can limit or challenge a person’s movements, senses, or activities.” These disabilities include symptoms or limitations that may … Continue reading
Emergency Preparedness and People with Visual Disabilities
This week, NARIC and AbleData are partnering to bring you preparedness resources from the NIDILRR Community and elsewhere so you can be #PreparedNotScared. We kick things off with resources for people who are blind or have other visual disabilities. Continue reading
Project Spotlight: Experiencing the World via Touch
February is Low Vision Awareness Month. For many individuals who are blind, living with low vision, or who are Deaf/blind, touch is an important sense for experiencing the world around them. Technology that is tactile or haptic can help people … Continue reading
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Tagged ABLEDATA, accessibility, assistive technology, Audio-Tactile Web Accessibility with Haptic Gloves, blind, books, deaf-blind, displays, exhibits, Field Initiated Projects, haptic, low vision, Low Vision Awareness Month, museums, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR-funded research, REHABDATA search, SBIR, tactile systems, touch, Touch-Responsive Models for Universal Access to Smithsonian Museums Exhibits, visual disabilities
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What research is available from the NIDILRR community for people who are blind or have visual disabilities?
In honor of World Braille Day, NARIC’s information specialists searched the NIDILRR Program Database to find NIDILRR-funded projects related to people who are blind or with visual disabilities. Here are a few examples: The project Indoor Navigation Aid for Individuals … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community – February 2016
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged access, accessibility, Apps, assistive technology, children, children with disabilities, digital divide, Disabilities, e-learning, education, Educational Resource Center, employment outcomes, general education, Hispanics, Hispanics with disabil, Innovation and learning Network, intellectual disabilities, interventions, Latino attitudes, Latinos, Latinos with disabilities, learning, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, ONCE, people with disabilities, RIA, Spanish, Spanish-language, special education, special needs, teachers, technology, TWYLA, visual disabilities
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged African American Children, African American youth, ASL, blindness, children, children with visual disabilities, communication, cultural competency, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, english, families, family, health, health and wellness, Hispanics, interventions, Latino Children, Latino youth, Latinos, minorities, NARIC, NIDRR, NIDRR research, obesity, people with disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, rehabilitation, rehabilitation readiness tool, Spanish, Trilingual, visual disabilities, visual impairments, vocational rehabilitation, VR, wellness, youth
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 