Eric Bridges, CEO of American Foundation for the Blind, tells PEOPLE that the new Barbie "can help get blindness out into society in a way that is accurate and attention-getting" Hedy Phillips is the ...

At her desk, a young blind girl, Mia, types and reads aloud a story she is writing about her family. “A glowing sphere, large like a horse—it took in my great-grandfather, then it burst,” she says.

LUCY EDWARDS: “Oh my gosh Barbie, have you got a little cane.” Lucy Edwards is touching the first-ever blind Barbie doll. For the blind broadcaster and disability activist, it’s a moment she had ...

Two years ago, Mary Elizabeth Nnachetam was living in silence with her family in Nigeria. Mary Elizabeth was born deaf, and in a country where deaf people are often marginalized and some signed ...