RDPFS Update: Grants Awarded to Strengthen Music Education, Youth Services, and Professional Assessments for Children and Young Adults with Vision Loss
The Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS) Board of Directors recently approved the awarding of three grants to not-for-profit providers. While supporting distinct programs and organizations, each of these grants addresses underserved needs of young people, from a focus on early childhood, to school-aged children, to those pursuing higher education. For people who are blind [...]
RDPFS Awards Grant to The Filomen D’Agostino Greenberg Music School: The Final Hurdle to Music Accessibility: Higher Education
Students with vision loss who seek to study music beyond primary and secondary education face a great disadvantage due to major accessibility, accommodation, and inclusivity issues. From auditions to applications and entrance exams, admissions offices at institutions of higher learning often do not know how to procure braille or large print music materials. As a [...]
RDPFS Awards Grant to Lighthouse Guild: Insightful Saturdays: Virtual Youth Enrichment Program
More than 800 children ages 6 through 13 years are known to be blind and visually impaired in New York State, according to the New York State Commission for the Blind (NYCB). Many reside in rural areas where they may be the only child in their class, school, or community with a vision impairment. These [...]
RDPFS Awards Grant to Perkins School for the Blind: Confronting the CVI Crisis
Cerebral/Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI), the leading cause of blindness among children in the United States, affects approximately 180,000 children nationwide. Educators, early intervention specialists, and pediatricians have not been exposed to the needs of those with CVI and are not learning strategies to support their success, despite its incidence. To address this lack of awareness [...]
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Major Accessibility Website Set to Close by End of August: Users Encouraged to Save Archived Material
by Daniel Parker, RDPFS Contributor: On July 27, 2024, David Goodwin, founder of AppleVis, announced that the site would be closing by August 31st. Founded in 2010, AppleVis is an independent, third-party resource where people with vision loss who use Apple products share tips and best practices to make the most of their devices. The [...]
Research Update: Potential New Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy Could Address the Disease Much Earlier
People with diabetes face a number of potential health complications, including the risk of vision loss through diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of new cases of legal blindness in adults ages 20 through 74. Researchers from the University of Oklahoma (OU) and Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center have been “studying a new revolutionary treatment…that could [...]
New Blind Doll Increases Representation of People Who Are Visually Impaired
by Daniel Parker, RDPFS Contributor: This summer, the toy company Mattel has released the first blind Barbie® Fashionista doll, developed in partnership with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). It was released along with a black Barbie Doll with Down syndrome as part of the global Barbie® Fashionistas line, which features dolls with various [...]
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