Who knew that blind people could enjoy America’s favorite pastime!
But how, you ask? It’s called beep baseball, and this is how it works. Read more A Home Run for Beep Baseball...
My husband Greg recently accepted the position of training center supervisor at the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Read more What My Sighted Child Is Learning from Our Blind Community...
Music therapy, like blindness, is very misunderstood. As a blind student in a field in which disabled people are just starting to become the helpers rather than solely the recipients of help, I've needed to find my own solutions to many complicated problems.
Read more Finding a Career in Music Therapy...
As part of our NFB summer internship program, we had the pleasure of spending two weeks working with John Paré and the rest of the Advocacy and Policy department.
Read more NFB Interns Experience Advocacy in DC and Maryland...
The United States Senate today provided its advice and consent for ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. The chamber also approved the treaty's implementing legislation (S. 2559), which will make modest adjustments to US copyright law to fully comply with the treaty. Read more United States Senate Greenlights Marrakesh Treaty and Implementing Legislation...
In 2017, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a peculiar policy decision to not reimburse Medicare beneficiaries for continuous glucose monitors when they were used in conjunction with a mobile app.
Read more Advocacy Win for the Blind Diabetic Community...