US children with visual impairment see better with high-tech assistance


The magnifier allows Wallace to read her textbooks easier. Photo: TNS

Nyla Wallace has coped with vision challenges for most of her 16 years, but was only recently diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which causes an individual’s sight to deteriorate over time and has no cure.

Even more recently, she was given something that will finally give her some relief from her ailment.

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