Advocates say the product could transform reading for blind and visually impaired children, making the experience of learning Braille more inclusive and helping to combat what has been called a Braille literacy crisis.

A new effort is underway to help blind and visually impaired children more naturally learn to read Braille, a system based on different configurations of six small, raised dots that blind people read with their fingertips. And it is coming in the form of a favorite childhood toy: Lego bricks.

The Indian Association for the Blind in Madurai comes out with two monthly magazines in Braille for the visually challenged that carry stories contributed by the people from the community

In our weekly feature #TechThursdays we turn the spotlight on a school that
is going against the norm of marks and grades and encouraging its students
to develop lateral thinking skills.

What happens when you encourage students to come up with solutions to real
world problems and develop working prototypes of solutions, they have
proposed using latest technologies? You get an automated walking stick, 3D
printed braille cards, and "help me" shoes - all aimed at enabling visually
impaired people perform daily tasks with ease.

PANAJI: Sumera Khan, 19, didn’t think her first voting  experience would be so pleasant. The visually impaired  student from Curtorim constituency had seen many of her kind  go up to the polling booth but were forced to depend on someone else to execute the task for them. Making an independent  choice was simply not possible, until Tuesday. 

Bengaluru: The Suriya Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation from Bengaluru, aims to provide quality education to visually impaired and economically weaker sections. "Along with education, we also support the students with basic necessities like as food, clothing and medical services," said Mr Saravana, one of the founders of the Suriya Foundation, while talking to Deccan Chronicle.