Reports and Insight

Why register your child's vision impairment?

Registering your child's vision impairment can open the door to a wide range of services and support. In the film below, we follow Nick Radford as he goes thro…

Creating accessible learning materials

Modifying learning materials takes skill and a knowledge of how it will be used. But with practice a straightforward literary text can be downloaded and change…

Handwriting: trial or triumph?

Children with vision impairment can face challenges when learning handwriting. This article explores those issues and some practical solutions.

Aiming high for children with low vision

Good quality low vision assessments are vital to help children to make the best use of their vision. It is important, not just for learning, but for their over…

The economic impact of sight loss and blindness in the UK adult population

Deloitte Access Economics (Australia) was commissioned by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to update the 2009 Access Economics report on the…

Vision, accessing information and accessing benefits

This report is a longitudinal research study tracking the process of transition for blind and partially sighted young people from age 14 for five years, identi…

Tackling unemployment for blind and partially sighted people

Finding Your Feet - Next steps project: Strategic impact evaluation

This final report presents the overall findings of the evaluation of RNIB Finding Your Feet - Next Steps Project. Two programmes are included in the Finding Yo…

Tackling Digital Exclusion: older blind and partially sighted people and the internet

Whilst the use of the internet has grown dramatically in recent years, particular groups of people in society are less likely to be online than others. This in…

A survey of the social activity of blind and partially sighted young people

This is a report commissioned by RNIB to investigate the experiences of blind and partially sighted young people in using social networking sites and mobile ph…