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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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Creative Writing as an Immersive Task in Braille Literacy

Are your students tired of the dry, dull, doldrums of basic braille drills? Try immersive creative writing! Immersive creative writing...

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As the Blind See the Yuletide

In 1904, the Ladies Home Journal published a piece by Helen Keller titled, “As the Blind See the Yuletide.” For...

A photo from the 70s of four ladies stand side by side at a table decorated with a small red sleigh and a towering Christmas

Photographs as Time Capsules of the Past

The holiday season is decidedly upon us, and with workplace parties on the calendar I was curious what holiday-related items...

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APH Partners with DAISY Consortium on New Digital Braille Standard 

We’re pleased to announce our partnership with the DAISY Consortium to develop a brand-new, electronic braille standard! This development is...

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University Bookshelf

APH Press offers a selection of books for professors to utilize in their courses. Review this list of books to...

Raymond Randles, a white man with a high forehead and sandy blonde hair wearing thick eyeglasses, a red sweater, and a white collared short, sitting at a desk with a reel-to-reel tape machine in the background. He grins at the photographer.

Remembering Raymond

  Raymond Randles in his studio office in 1993. The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas here in our museum is...