BOSTON (CBS) - The Boston Athletic Association says there are 100 guided runners registered for this year's Boston Marathon. A guided runner is someone who gives verbal cues to visually impaired or ...

New research shows that the brains of sighted and blind people adapt in a similar way when they learn to use sound echoes to understand the world without vision. The study, led by Durham University, ...

OWEN MCDONNELL: Hello Gophers and Gopher adjacents, my name is Owen McDonnell and welcome to yet another episode of In The Know, a podcast dedicated to the University of Minnesota. As you probably ...

Blind Fitness, a Santa Barbara nonprofit will guide a group of blind and vision-impaired walkers and joggers from the pier toward East Beach on Saturday, Oct. 15, White Cane Awareness Day. The ...

This is how runners who are blind or severely visually impaired race in the Paralympics: alongside a running guide who is connected to them with a rope tether around their fingers. Not all visually ...

Winter weather poses challenges for the blind: unshovelled sidewalks thick with snow. Cane-users and guide dogs alike find hardship in the cold. Here’s how you can help.

Blind people are better at sensing their own heartbeats than sighted, shows a new study. The study indicates that blindness leads to a heightened ability in feeling signals from the inner body. Blind ...

A new study completed at the University of California, San Diego describes the effects of long-term blindness on the human visual system. "The Effects of Long-Term Deprivation on Visual Perception and ...

Abertay University has collaborated with Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) on a groundbreaking project to make ...