Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech
We are proud to announce that The Institute on Blindness was awarded a grant of $4,989.36 from the Lagniappe Ladies Foundation to purchase six Perkins Braillers. The Braillers will be used for our graduate students and children receiving outreach services … Read More »
Dr. Edward Bell, who directs the Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech, delivered the following remarks at the 2015 National Federation of the Blind of Louisiana convention. Beyond finding the news he shares interesting, we hope that you will join … Read More »
Significant vision loss and the thought of pending blindness is among the most fearful horrors a parent may face. The thought that your child may lose more vision is frightening; the prospect of him growing up and becoming blind is … Read More »
The other day, my friend and colleague Pam Allen said something profound: “It’s really hard for people who have just lost their vision to imagine how they could ever live on their own in a new city when they have … Read More »
When faced with a student who still has some residual vision, teachers always want to know if the student should be taught using braille, large print, or both. We have prepared this set of frequently asked questions about a reliable, … Read More »
Structured Discovery Cane Travel (SDCT) and Structured Discovery Rehabilitation have been demonstrated to be among the most innovative and effective forms of rehabilitation training for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Louisiana Tech University has operated its Orientation and … Read More »
Too many teacher-prep programs in the field of blindness, especially the fully online degrees, focus too heavily upon textbooks. In many cases, we know that students don’t shake the hand of a blind person until their internships or student teaching … Read More »
Sponsored by the National Rehabilitation Association, the National Blindness Professional Certification Board, and us—the Institute on Blindness at Louisiana Tech University—professionals in the field of educating blind students and adults from around the country will gather to discuss the latest … Read More »
T-Base Communications—a Canadian producer of accessible materials and member of the Braille Authority of North America—asked me to write a piece about why braille is important to me. Here’s just an excerpt, and you can read the full post on … Read More »
When it comes to teaching cane travel, the methodology that we teach at the Institute on Blindness is very different from that taught by traditionally-trained instructors. Many instructors will tell you that they encourage their students to problem solve, explore … Read More »