Beth Strange, a local teacher, set out to teach her kindergarten class a geography lesson, but it quickly expanded beyond her ...

Stefanie Richardson’s kindergarten class is receiving greetings from all over the country, in what all began with a simple ...

Our sense of touch, or tactile sensitivity, is vital for many everyday tasks and skills - think typing on your keyboard or simply enjoying the feel of different fabrics. By enhancing this sense ...

Her senses of touch and sight had become practically interchangeable. Had Rosa developed her Braille touch so highly that she could feel the shapes of characters in letterpress printing?

We lose touch with our sense of play by age 29, research shows. A study of 2,000 adults revealed 43 per cent have become less playful as they’ve got older. Top reasons include increased ...

the city’s public preschool programs again came up as a rationale for shutting down Weekday. One member suggested that Weekday was a victim of its own success: “In a sense it is mission ...

The Zurich, Switzerland-based company said its sensors give robots the sense of touch so they can move and work freely and safely in academic and industrial applications. Founded in 2006, Kinova ...

Six-year-old* Josh Tan cannot wait to get to his kindergarten every day ... of real-world experiences helps children make sense of the world in ways that cannot be taught in textbooks.

Scientists are pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) by using brain stimulation to evoke a sense of touch in users of a bionic arm. The device ...

The ability to touch, as well as proprioception – the sense of one’s body’s position and movement – are unquestionably important faculties for normal functioning in society. For persons ...