learn how to use braille. with changing technology, smaller devices like that don't have the capacity for large print. they can only show one letter at a time. it would take forever to read one word. i know that won't work, so when you project out 5 to 10 years, the new technologies will challenge me to become fluent in braille, as well. narrator: technology is rapidly changing the way we all live our lives. so, too, medical research is changing the way we view and treat disease. with all this progress, what does the future hold for those who have usher syndrome? this is going to be a very gradual process. we're going to be able to slow it first because that's the easiest thing to do. ultimately, we'll be able to stop the progression of the rp, and finally, we're going to be able to reverse it and give back some of the vision that people have lost. now, this isn't going to happen tomorrow, and it will come in short, little spurts. there'll be a this, that will maybe help a little bit, then something else that

he was entirely blind by the age of 13 but learned gerschwin's rhapsody in blue by using braille scores. he was also one of the major instrumentalists of the feeling -- many of you recollected remember -- the thrilling sound of the 50's that blended the latin bolero with the latin sound. the second was chico, we like always to put these little names to people. my name is carlotta but my real name was charlotte and they called me carlotica, little charlotte. he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were ha

kids-- he was going blind back then and had to learn braille from scratch.ve him special insights. >> when we read, most people with their eyes, i now with my ears or with my fingers, you have to figure out what the text, print or braille dots are saying. that's decoding. and many children who have specific learning disabilities, in particular dyslexia, have to put extra energies and efforts into decoding text. you cannot read as much material, you can't keep up with grade-level and rigorous material, >> i wanted to show you. >> reporter: current principal trician lampron showed us how one second grader with learning disabilities demonstrated his comprehension of a story he'd read writing in long hand. >> he wrote, not very neatly, "rosa helped blanca. blanca helped rosa." he did what the prompt told him to do, but obviously has a problem with writing and spelling. and is that a benchmark second grade response? i would say, "no, it isn't." >> reporter: then on another page she showed us what the same student wrote using a computer to explain his comprehensio

in palo alto, california, where i was able to learn how to use a computer, learn a little bit of braille -- it got tough. but again, i still wanted to be who i was before, and it's funny, we all here want to be independent somehow, some way. i'm married and, you know, sometimes i don't like my wife nagging on me, and i know she's not, and i know she doesn't like me nagging on her. but that independence was still, like, just hovering over me. i want to do things on my own. i want to go to the gym on my own. i remember, you know, asking to go to the gym at the blind blind center, and they kind of looked at me like, huh? what that's that? i was like, i want to work out. 210 pounds of twisted steel and i think you kind of know the rest, i wanted to work out. but they wouldn't ever let me go by myself because they were too scared i was going to get lost. .. you listen for the cars and cross the street and entered the sidewalk again and take the first right. then you take the first left and about 15 or 20 yards ahead it's the jim, very easy. on was jury surprised they wouldn't let me do this b

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. >> you see braille on atm. >> it's not on a lot of them. that's the problem. >> i didn't realize that. >> the banks are saying they're not going to make the deadline and it's not an enforceable rule unles the companies are investigated by the just department. it's a big problem. >> you would think being customer friendly would be something that could affect the bottom line and they would want to take part in that. what do you have for us in the next half hour? >> phone addiction is going up. we'll be talking about that. >>> a slick band of thieves makes off with thousands of dollars and they are right in front of the check at the time. we'll show you how they were able to give the store employees a flip. >>> hundreds of soldiers told their health problems weren't real. what's being done to fix the situation. we'll be back. >>> ten after 5:00 on this thursday morning. we've got a mild start out there. temperatures in the 50s already. that's about average high for this time of year. about 53 for this time in march. we go into the low 70s this