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Dreidel Mania

Melanie Chartoff | Posted 12.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Wii, Toys, Sony Playstation, Melanie Chartoff, Satire, Dreidel, Gelt, Braille, Guitar Hero, Hanukkah Gifts, Texas Hold 'Em, Comedy News
Melanie Chartoff

Santa is lugging Sony Playstations. Traditions are toppling and mutating to the point where we can scarcely remember their original intent. Oy! Even the dreidel has gone millennial.

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Study Shows Hope For Type Of Blindness

Wall Street Journal | By RON WINSLOW | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Eyesight, Sight, Kids, Braille, Blind, Children, Blindness, Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, Health, Gene Therapy, Medicine, Study, rpe65, Living News

A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic ey...

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Disabled Students Need Accessible Books

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Disabled, Braille, Education, Living News
Jim Fruchterman

People with print disabilities should have affordable, accessible technology that allows them to easily read. Everyone should have equal access to the world of ideas.

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Young Adult Books Needed For Braille Class

Posted 11.14.2009 | Impact

Read More: Young Adult Novels, Braille, Creative Commons, Reading, Fair Use, Ebooks, Impact News

Here's a letter by Patti Smith (not that one), a Detroit elementary school teacher of visually impaired students, sent to writer Cory Doctorow. She di...

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Obama Joins Group to Block Treaty for Blind and Other Reading Disabilities

James Love | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Intellectual Property, Braille, Dyslexia, Blindness, Reading Disability, World Intellectual Property Organization, Business News
James Love

The number of accessible works is very small everywhere. However, in developing countries, the collections are super small, and access to works in languages other than English is practically non-existent.

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