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Bringing Popular Online Games to Monarch with PBS and Wordstock

The Monarch is a revolutionary braille device with a 10-line by 32-cell refreshable display. It supports braille, eBraille, and tactile graphics, while offering a variety of...

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A woman wearing plastic gloves guides a child's hand to a STACS card with a blue ball on it. Other STACS cards can be seen on the table they are using.

Connecting and Communicating Through STACS

Every morning “Z” greets Taylor Lewis with a smile and a wave as she enters her classroom at the International...

Three gnomes wearing tall decorated, textured stocking-caps, one blue, one red, and one green, standing side by side. Each gnome has a silky white beard, a felt nose, and textured boots.

Celebrate Braille Literacy with Tactile Greeting Cards

January is National Braille Literacy Month, and what better way is there to celebrate than by sharing your love of...

Young student with both hands on an abacus competing in the 2022 Abacus Bee.

Calculating Confidence: APH’s Abacus Bee

As STEM careers become more prevalent in the world, it is more necessary than ever to provide students with a...

The Dot Experience logo: the words “The Dot Experience” in bold black letters stacked, with the words “The” and “Dot” over the word “Experience.” The two lines of type are equal in length. “The” and “Experience” are the same size, but “Dot” is larger and more prominent than the other two words. To the right of the two lines of type is a braille cell made of six individually colored circles.

Introduction to The Dot Experience

APH’s vision since 1858 is an accessible world, with opportunity for everyone. APH empowers people who are blind or low...

A man wearing a black shirt with the APH logo on it speaks to a young woman, who is wearing dark sunglasses and holding a white tipped cane, as he leads her down a hallway with a large black and white mural of a child on their right and a plain wall lined with banners displaying the APH logo in APH branding colors between tall windows on their left. There are also tables pushed against the wall on the left, and the light coming in from the windows reflects off the blue and white tiled floor.

December Reflections and Transitions

Late December is always a great time for reflection. There have been a lot of big changes in the museum...

Two women sit on a sofa. At right, an older woman, Helen Keller, wearing a blue dress, has a child’s doll on her lap and seems to be accepting a wrapped present from the woman beside her. Helen has a big smile on her face and seems to be enjoying herself.

Helen Keller’s Christmas Cards

The Helen Keller Archive is filled with incredible artifacts that typically could not be found in most folks’ homes. There...