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Early Focus Third Edition Brings Ongoing Growth

Families with a young child newly diagnosed with blindness or low vision invariably find themselves facing a series of questions...

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A young boy moves the beads on a giant Cranmer abacus.

Testing Math Skills with the Abacus Bee

Created in China in 1200 C.E., the abacus is an ancient tool used by generations of mathematicians and students before...

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Aging and Vision Loss Bookshelf

Many adults lose their vision later in life and may have difficulty adapting to their vision loss, which can have...

A view of one wall of the Museum Annex. Visible are two industrial machines. One resembles a piano, except each key makes a punch onto a piece of metal. The second shows three rounded tops (part of a cylinder press). Blurred images of other machines continue down the wall.

The Way We Worked

Lots of changes are afoot here at APH. We are knee deep in construction in the building as part of...

Shelves of boxes, varying in size, in a museum archive.

Phase Boxes and Flat Dots: Preserving Braille Materials in the KSB Alumni Association Collection

Our next-door neighbor the Kentucky School for the Blind (KSB) has a long and rich history, and as such has...

The corner of the velcro side of an All-in-One Board decorated with an array of colorful tactile shapes. There is also an assortment of tactile shapes scattered in front of the All-in-One Board.

All About the All-in-One Boards

APH’s All-in-One Boards—large and small—provide two commonplace working surfaces that can accommodate a variety of learning and recreational activities. These...

An old woman sits on a straight-backed chair on a porch. Her cane rests against the chair. She wears headphones, with wires that lead to a talking book player set on a nearby table.

Finding Sadie

“The blind veterans here in the Helen Keller class are able, thru talking books, to obliterate the tedious hospital hours...