Blind children can 'learn' to see
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The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children shows.
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School pupils reveal how visits from refugees and asylum seekers taught them lessons about prejudice.
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British scientists plan to use stem cells to cure a common form of blindness, with the first patients receiving test treatment in five years.
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Every week around 100 Filipino children go blind, mostly due to preventable diseases, the health department has said.
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UK scientists are attempting to restore vision in people with a leading cause of blindness using stem cells.
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PHOENIX -- Twenty-two hours after his historic brain surgery, 8-month-old Dominico &quot;Nico&quot; Bastolla opened his eyes and looked at his smiling mother as she tested his vision by waving a stuffed yellow banana from the foot of his crib.
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CHICAGO -- For more than 70 years, U.S. law has required that federal buildings throughout the nation give blind people priority in running vending operations, gift shops and cafeterias. There is federal funding for training and start-up costs for blind entrepreneurs.
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LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters Life!) - Most teenagers are more afraid of losing their sight than suffering from cancer but are unaware that smoking can increase the risk of blindness, researchers said on Tuesday.
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A dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired &#151; launching a NASA rocket.
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An &quot;electronic eye&quot; that can be fitted to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more safely, scientists said on Friday.
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Love really is blind, at least when it comes to looking at others, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts.
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Images from NASA telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold. But how do you behold them when you can't see? The answer lies between the covers of a new NASA-funded book written in Braille, Touch the Invisible Sky.
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NEW YORK  - Breast-fed children are significantly more likely to do well in measures of stereoscopic vision than are those who received formula during infancy, according to UK researchers.
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As director of Web operations at the American Foundation for the Blind, Crista Earl knows more than most about how visually impaired people can access the Internet. Still, when she browses the Web, Earl, 48 and blind, finds it time-consuming and difficult to use.
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Children know best. They see aging for what it is:
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Children read better when taught with a new system of phonics that builds on their own diction, researchers say.