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    Or chadash. That’s Hebrew for a new light. From Israel comes an intriguing assistive tech device named OrCam MyEye, recently updated to version 2.0.   OrCam MyEye, according [...]

      It all started with a 2011 blog that, by chance, was discovered on Twitter. The writer, Joe Devon, said, “Relatively, there isn’t a lot of great information […]

  Dyslexia. Many otherwise highly capable university students, such as Jason, Abigail, and Brian have a drive to excel. However, their dyslexia has made access to textbooks and other written [...]

  People with dyslexia, visual-processing challenges, and other learning disabilities usually have great ideas but have grave difficulty writing them down. Fortunately, there are good [...]

  Famous for its hard- and software products to help students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities, Don Johnston also offers devices enabling these pupils to gain easy access to [...]

  Not even the creators of Star Trek would have imagined that a seemingly magical device that can read words on a page could fit inside a ballpoint pen, much […]

Large-print books and audio recordings, very helpful to people with dyslexia, have been available for a while. More recently, however, such assistive technology has become increasingly [...]

Two brothers from Ohio were the first to escape the surly bonds of Earth with a powered, controllable airplane. The creator of Britain’s most successful independent airline by far, Virgin […]

  Last week in this space, we mentioned that October is a busy time for disability awareness. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). It is also Blindness [...]

Although the back-to-school displays have been in grocery and retail stores since July, the actual time for this annual ritual is now becoming reality. The transition from summer to school […]