Lots of companies are pouring resources into teaching cars to see the world around them. Now a startup called Strap Technologies is developing a wearable pod that uses some of the same kinds of ...

The iconic white cane has helped provide empowerment and mobility for generations of visually impaired people and has now received a high-tech update courtesy of researchers at MIT. While the cane ...

A long-time Sterling Heights resident, who is blind, contacted the Sterling Heights Lions Club when her Perkins Braille Writer stopped working. She wondered if the Lions club could help get it ...

HOUR WORKWEEK TO. TODAY IS WHITE CANE AWARENESS DAY, A REMINDER TO BE COURTEOUS AND RESPECTFUL TO BLIND PEOPLE NAVIGATING STREETS AND ROADWAYS. THE DAY IS NAMED AFTER THE WHITE CANES. MANY BLIND OR ...

Melissa Mabee is a certified orientation and mobility specialist who provides white cane training to children and adults. Christopher Butler is the executive director of IN-SIGHT, a Rhode Island ...

BOSTON - The best advice given to the visually challenged Massachusetts residents and advocates for the community attending White Cane Awareness Day Friday at the State House was from an 8-year-old ...

BOSTON — While October is designated as White Cane Awareness Month, the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind and Perkins School for the Blind chose Friday to bring its membership, local and national ...

Rockport resident Aubrey Sholds-Neal received the Meg Robertson Mobility Award at the White Cane Awareness Day at the State House in Boston on Oct. 24, 2025. There are around 28,000 people who are ...