‘Mississippi Roads’ to feature T.K. Martin Center Thursday
Mississippi State’s T.K. Martin Center will be featured on “Mississippi Roads” airing Thursday at 7 p.m., on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. An original production of MPB,
Empowerment: A two-week immersion in braille can open worlds of learning for children with low vision and blindness
“Look at you go, man. You’re doing great!” said Wingfield Bouchard, encouraging 11-year-old Kobi Cook. Kobi is blind, but his long, tapered fingers tapped rapidly across the seven keys of the Perkins Brailler. With each stroke, the typewriter-like machine transferred raised dots of the Braille alphabet to a sheet of white paper, creating a tactile document.