It shows the deaf and blind activist and writer Helen Keller as a young child.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

It was a strange sickness that made her completely blind and deaf.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The Ethiopian National Association of the Blind helped write a training document on how to include blind people in education projects.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

Each year an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to half a million children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.

VOA: special.2011.03.01

It can process images taken by a camera into sensations that could be used by a blind person wearing it.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

The woman of action was ordered to remain quiet for months in a dark room, or become blind.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

There are also documents written in Braille, a method used by blind people to read and write.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

In the film,a blind man,Frank Slade, takes another man,Charlie Simms, for a fast ride in a Ferrari through the streets of New York City.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

Scientists have found a new species of blind lobster and giant bacteria, to name a few.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

He suggested the Kellers get a teacher for the blind who could teach Helen to communicate.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Romel Joseph is a blind, fifty year old violinist with Haitian and American citizenship.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

A teacher arrived from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

"The Blind Side" is another nominated film about a black teenager.

VOA: special.2010.03.01