Blindness

Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario whose research on the brains of blind people who use echolocation has discovered how their brains have been rewired so… Audio

Daniel Kish is known as a real life Batman. He is a crusader, without a cape, for the blind. Kish lost his eyesight as a baby but uses a form of echolocation to build a mental picture of the world… Audio

This week on One in Five: Treating by touch - a profile of Motueka physiotherapist, Richard Hayward who also happens to be blind. Trained in London, Richard came to New Zealand thirty years ago via a… Audio

What's it like to visit a museum or gallery if you're blind? We go for a tour with qualified audio describer Bruce Roberts and Lisette Wesseling around the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Audio

Jonathan Mosen helps us test some smartphone apps that can help blind people identify the food in their cupboards. Audio

Work is well under way in a project to grow part of a human eye. The aim is to produce a retina. This could be used to help prevent degenerative blindness, one of the most common forms of vision loss… Audio

Peter Meijer's vOICe takes images captured by a camera in a visor and translates these into sounds played to the user via headphones. Audio

Jim Morunga's been serving his community for 40 years. Last year he was named New Zealand's Local Hero of the year. Other regional winners were in the running, but Napier-based Jim took the top award… Audio

An electronic device has been developed which uses echolocation to alert blind people to obstacles in the environment Audio